Foreign News: On the Carpet

Templetarian, house organ of James Templeton & Co., Glasgow carpet makers, last week spoke of a new carpet order: "The firm has, during its long history, supplied carpets for many and varied uses, but never before for use too feet below ground. This particular order is for an emergency deep shelter which can be used by the British Cabinet for its meetings, if required."

Deep as the pile of a Templeton carpet are two secrets: where the Cabinet shelter is, where the bombed-out House of Commons is now quartered.

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