PEOPLE OF ENGLAND

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 May 1941, Page 6

PEOPLE OF ENGLAND

NOT TO BE CONQUERED BY HITLER RESOLUTION UNDER ORDEAL OF BOMBING. TESTIMONY OF RETURNING PASSENGERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day. 12.45 p.m.) SYDNEY. This Day. A further tribute to the unconquerable spirit of London was paid by passengers who arrived in a crowded liner from England. Most of the passengers were Australian and Now Zealand women and children, a majority of whom had waited many months to procure berths. All the adult passengers agreed that Hitler might leave London practically in ruins, but he would never conquer the spirit of the people of England. He was merely intensifying their hatred of his savagery. Sister M. Currie, formerly of the staff of the Auckland Public Hospital, who was in charge of a first aid post in London for several months, said she occasionally went, in a splendidly equipped mobile operating theatre, to bombed areas. At dawn, she said, you might see nothing but stark ruin, but a few hours later people would be flocking to work, despite an almost indescribable disorganisation of traffic. They would be cheerful about it, too.