AIR RAID ESCAPES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1940, Page 6

AIR RAID ESCAPES

LONDONER FOLLOWED BY BOMBS One Londoner is beginning to think that he must have as many lives as the cat! A Government employee, he lived until recently in a flat not a thousand miles from Baker Street. A few nights ago the Germans dropped an 8001 b. bomb only 10 yards away. . Feeling chilly from the draught, he moved next morning to an hotel in the Strand. That same night a bomb 101 l 10 yards away. Next morning, feeling even chillier, he moved into a block ol flats in Mayfair. And. that night, a bomb fell slap on tlie block of flats. Next day he went, congratulating himself on his luck, to share a friends flat in another part ol West London. And. six hours after, a Molotov breadbasket fell on his. friend's flat. He was badly burned and was removed to hospital. Within two hours the hospital itself was hit by a highexplosive bomb. He's now recuperating in a suburban hospital. His friends are giving that suburb a wide berth.

A visitor to London who has also had to move more than once is Queen Wilhelmina, who was living until lately in a part of London repeatedly bombed. She moved to a small villa a few miles out.

The change proved unwise. The place proved to be a favourite "indiscriminate” target. Two nights running the Queen was nearly bombed: one bomb fell within a few yards of the house. She has now moved back io Lpndon, to a place which has a good, deep shelter.