In London the practical business of collecting news was carried out last week under adverse conditions:
> Most news offices had air-raid shelters underground, fitted up as newsrooms, with telephones and typewriters. Associated Press, United Press each kept a steel-helmeted reporter on its rooftop to watch raiders and telephone descriptions to the newsrooms down below. When the lookout announced that bombers were overhead, half the staff ducked into shelters; the rest stayed at their desks upstairs.
> The difficulty of getting news from place to place through damaged streets, under shrapnel showering from the sky, increased daily....
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