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4 Monday Sept 1939

The first news this morning was that a British Liner from Glasgow to Montreal has been sunk at sight with 1700 passengers on board. No warning was given. This early the brutality of it comes forth.
I have spent the day in terror. Working from the church as my centre. We are opening it every day. Make it your headquarters. Keep yourself in the love of God. Met some of the ministers. The Methodists are for uniting the congregations. But I am not sure this is the best way. But you will have to be led by events. Try out work for a Quarter as you are and see how things go. Muriel wants to know why God made such a man as Hitler.
People everywhere carrying their gas masks with them.
This evening went to Winterbourne. Saw the aeroplanes all standing ready for action.
Our little evacuee Marie was very homesick tonight and wept much . Her mother is in Salisbury but she .............................
Strange hooters make the night horrible.

5 Tuesday

The war is taking a different turn from what we had expected. We had thought of a lightening war of terror in the first few days. Instead of that we read this morning of light air raids.
Millions of leaflets have been dropped on Germany and there seems a strange reluctance to begin on the Western Front. Reports of an air raid on the Keil Canal by airmen from Boscombe Down. This afternoon went to see how they were getting on there. Took tea with Warren's. Jim seems determined to join up and is making for the Air Force.
It was a lovely afternoon as we sat at tea in the garden. Strange to say there seemed much less tension than in the actual days of the Crisis. Went into the village. Mr. G. loaded me with apples. Rode back in the beautiful evening. Spent the evening seeking dark blinds. Thought of our danger to the proximity of the railway where bright lights are displayed. Awesome display of searchlights as they darted about the heavens like great fish in water. Scores of them about.

7th Thurs.
We were thrown into confusion this morning. A letter from Bath College concerning Eva. The college is not to re-open and we do not know what to do. All their careers are in the melting pot.

8th Friday

A day of anxiety and confusion and nobody seems to know what to think of it all. There has been a stream of callers to the house and many seem to feel the need for friendliness.

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