September 23rd 1940

Monday September 23rd

The most appalling crime has been committed by the Bosche* surpassing all he has done before, which is to say a good deal.

One of the evacuee ships** carrying children between the ages of 5 and 15 to Canada has been torpedoed 600 miles out, and in a gale, with the loss of 83 children out of 90.

Most people, like myself, feel powerless to say anything, but I don’t think anyone need bother to talk about mercy for the Bosche after this.

* This is the first time that Lorna uses this pejorative term. Today it is more readily associated with World War I. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terms_used_for_Germans#Boche_(pejorative)
** The sinking of the City of Benares. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_City_of_Benares