Cleaning Up After Hitler
WE kept longing for daylight knowing that Jerry would make off for home, His Parthian shot was a big one on one of the ward blocks. Dawn brought a scene of frightful destruction. Splintered glass lay ankle deep. Doors swung disconsolately on one hinge. In the laboratory all _our bottles of stains,
acids, and strong aixailes were lying muddled on the floors and Benches. Steevie, the Pinkie, turned up and with another helper we set to work to clean up once again. Running water, heating, and lighting of course were non-existent but with the aid of a Primus, a bucket, and candles we were able to carry on essential work. A week later we were as trim as a new ship and
ready for the "next onslaught. And thus will the people of Britain go on cleaning up the mess which Hitler creates. Yet they will find time in the midst of all their work to plan a new hospital for the future. Battered and ruined St. Thomas’s stands as a monument to a people’s endurance and deep faith in the ideals of democracy. — ("A Great London Hospital Under Fire." Mrs. Andrew Fuller, 2YA, February 13.) ‘
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 142, 13 March 1942, Page 5
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200Cleaning Up After Hitler New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 142, 13 March 1942, Page 5
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