PATRIOTIC APPEAL
“ENGLAND CAN TAKE IT.” (Contributed.) This week “John Bull” received a pathetic cutting from an English newspaper. It contained an extract from a letter written during a bomb raid. “My two aunties are knitting, Mum is just sitting still. Dad is smoking and I am writing to you. You would laugh if you could see us all sitting by the inside wall ready to make a dive under the table if things get too hot. I am going to read your letter and. see if it will give me a bit of pluck. What a row! Machine guns and bombs and planes —ours and Hitler’s. It’s our night tonight all right. I am now lying under the table. We have just had an incendiary bomb in the yard —my hand is shaking. ...” The letter broke off there—out of the hell that she had been describing came a bomb that struck her home. It killed the girl, her father and mother and two aunts. The letter was found near her body. England can take it. Wo are not yet called upon to take it but we are called 1 upon to give to those who are saving us from scenes like the above.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1942, Page 2
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204PATRIOTIC APPEAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1942, Page 2
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