The Eve of War in France.

Petrol became scarce in parts of France, but we managed, by a stroke of luck, to buy 22 gallons and stored it in peanut-oil drums. Our journey across Europe to London was a hurried one. Paris was quiet and calm and the evacuation of women and children was almost completed. We stayed a night there and then made for Brussels and Ostend and with a few minutes to spare caught the last car-ferry to Dover.