This is an entry in a year-long project to post-blog the demobilisation experience for British servicemen at the end of the Second World War. See here for an introduction to the project and here for a brief overview of the demobilisation process.
Several British service personnel, including members of the ATS, were injured last night when a bomb went off in a Cairo cinema, reports the Manchester Guardian. The Miami Cinema was showing the new British production A Place of One's Own when the bomb exploded. Egyptian authorities are investigating.
In other news: the Guardian also reports on the manpower crisis in Britain's coalmines. Difficulties in persuading returning servicemen to return to the pits has left a shortage of 100,000 men. The present output of 175 million tons of coal per year will not, it is feared, allow sufficient expansion of British industry to employ the men now streaming back from HM Forces.
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