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London - Sept* 3, 1939, Vevers took 3 riding elephants to Whip sn , 
killing 1 African to mile room. On way home heard over 
wireless war declared. 
Autumn of 1940 direct hdt on zebra house ; wild ass blown 
up into air, fell unhuf't in a stokehole; Grevy zebra escaped 
ran into Canden town, herded back by Vevers in car. Story 
of Huxley next morning. Restaurant roof afire, water main 
broken, firemen took water* from sea lion pool. 
Graters - water fowl ponds; roofs replaced, sometimes with 
wood or canvas; tropical bird house remodeled; camel house 
and ravai cage. Young giraffe frightened at Whipsn . 
Visitor and incendiary . 
Pood - vegetables instead of fruit; baby chicks, sparrows, 
rats and mice for meat. 
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Reptile house open; aquarium closed - store newsprint . 
30 - '10 siakes killed. Rare tilings kept in wooden tubs. 
Explain glass shattering. 
Rarities to day - tiny galagoes breeding, kusiraanse (rel_ to . 
civets), green squirrels, aardvaarks, herd of camels (obtains! 
from Russia before war, now selling at h 1000 each), amethyst 
starling (white below, purple above), tinker bird (black 
and yellow, thumb -size, voic e like a gong). 
Farrakeets, Alexandrine, green-winged kings, golden rlngnecks 
(his own selec tion). Wallabies, muntjacs and blackbuck 
anong oa k, birch, beech, copper beech, rhododendrons . 
Vickers plant making Wellington bombers; workers ordered 
to shelters, put played f ootball instead. i< *..• xncendian e s 
fell among coy/s, no damage; higja explo sive near house, ; < 
damage ; under gr oi nd shelt er for evacuee s • Avia to r s landt-.d 
in field in fog, couldn't get out be can seof fence. 
Rolls-Royces, no gas. Pood plentiful From own garden * 
400 acres of park, 150 of farmland. Zebra paddock 
whole Regent's Park, 33 acres. Ant el op e s, llamas, Li j. Go, 
wolf forest. 
15,000 acres, finest oak forest in England. 2uu Pere David 
deer. 18 wisent, 2000 deer Inc luding sika, water 1 , f dlloiii, 
in 33 acres 
10 more buzz bombs on outskirts 
Ezra - Foxwarren 
Whipsnade - 
Woburn Abbey - 
Part of house dates to Henry Viii; Robt. Hobbs, la t abbot 
