ENGLAND CALM
PEOPLE AT SEASIDE NO ALARM ON SUNDAY INTEREST IN WRECKAGE (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received August 19, 3.15 p.m.) LONDON, August 18 Although the Bremen radio, after the raid on Croydon, said that 8,000,000 Londoners were trembling day by day in aic raid shelters, the swimming pools and golf courses were crowded yesterday, and Weymouth and other esaside (meaning front-line) towns had the largest number of seaside promenaders for months.
The Daily Mail says: “Sunday on the Kentish and Sussex coasts was just Sunday. The authorities wish that more people would take shelter.” It was estimated that 100,000 people on August 17 visited a south-west London suburb where bombs fell. Mounted police were called out in the evening to clear the road.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21195, 19 August 1940, Page 8
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