NO PUBLIC HOLIDAY
GOOD FRIDAY IN BRITAIN
FACTORIES CARRY ON. LONDON BANKS AND SHOPS OPEN AS USUAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) LONDON, April 11. Good Friday in Fighting England was different to any other. Factories throughout the country and even banks and shops in London operated as usual. There were practically none of the usual charabancs, motor-cars and packs of cyclists and hikers which had crammed every road on every public holiday since the Londoners were first obsessed with their day in the country idea, but many went to church before work. There were no newspapers, but here and there people were seen reading prayer books as they travelled to work.
Many Englishmen, their wives and children were killed in their homes by bombs in the very early hours of Good Friday, 1941. Others may be doomed to die before another day comes because of bombers. The moon reaches its full at 9.15 o’clock tonight.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1941, Page 6
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160NO PUBLIC HOLIDAY Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1941, Page 6
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