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Show " i Home Seekers Invade House ! of Mourning By Universal Service. LONDON", Sept. 6. Here is a terrific example , of how the shortage of houses operates in England. En-gland. A woman who had just become a widow at Ashford. Kent, inserted a notice in the weekly paper to the effect that her house was not for rent or sale and that she "still requires re-quires a rocf over-her head." This because even before the funeral fu-neral cf her husband she was be- 1 sieged by would-be tenants, who had j heard of her husband's death and jumped at the conclusion she would give up her home. In London's suburbs at the present pres-ent time there are more than 100 inquiries for every house vacated and there's a movement afoot not only to convert vacant jails into : residences, but to use the temporary ' shacks erected in various London j parks for the accommodation of I troops and military offices during the wr.':. I . 1 |