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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 16, 1940.
RAIDERS
QUIT HOSPITAL MAY BE AFTER BOMBING BEATEN IN 25 MINUTES
PEOPLE LEFT their shelters to help evacuate a South-East London hospital hit by a bomb during a right air raid. The evacuation was completed in twenty-five minutes.
The volunteers
...
help- many of them women ed to carry the patients from a ward near the bomb crater. "It was pretty hot at the time," a hospital official said. "Bombs and anti-aircraft gunfire could be heard all round.
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rehearsed," he
"The work of the staff had been
well
added. "that it was not necessary to give orders. Everything went
clockwork."
like
BOMB ON
Down Fire Escape SHELTER
The bomb dropped in the main staircase. which was shattered, and patients in wards nearby none of whom was injured were carried down the fire escapes. There was only one casualty, a doctor, who was trapped in a small
roorn
at the top of the building. A firemen brought him down.
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KILLS 14
People who had come
ladder and an operation was per- from as far away as Tot-
formed. His condition is satisfac- tory
About half the patients in the hospital were air-raid victims. The hospital carried on bravely
under difficulties. A fire, which was
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tenham, N., and the East End to what they con- sidered the safety of an underground shelter in a
SOON
It is believed that secret inventions are bringing
us near to the time when the Germans will lose so
high a percentage of their night bombers that they may cease raiding.
Certain
the details of
new
ground defences, including im- proved searchlights, gunnery pre- diction, and fuse setting, may soon be disclosed.
Prof. E. N. da C. Andrade, Scientific Adviser to the Ministry, gave details of some of the in- genious and sometimes comical notions of inventors who want to win the war.
The Death-Ray
"Death-ray and perpetual mo- tion inventions are the most numerous," said Professor An- drade. "Each comes with his backer, like an old-fashioned prize-tighter.
"Most British inventors offer their ideas free but some for- cigners have asked anything from £100,000 to £1,000,000 for their notions on winning the war."
Other suggestions were: To project a gaseous substance quickly put out, had been caused western suburb of Lon- which would solidify into a jelly by the bomb, and the main sup- plies of gas and water were cut don, were killed and in-round the enemy, and deliver bim <iff. gency supply of water, and coal received a direct hit by a
a limited emer-jured when the shelter up like chicken in aspic.
There was
fires were lit for heat.
This hospital was one of three | bomb. which were bombed in London during the night.
Brave Boys
A bomb also damaged the in- patients' department of a West London hospital.
Twenty-four people
were trapped in one of the five cor- Fourteen ridors of the shelter. persons, including several chil- dren, were killed.
Fifteen hours after the bomb fell rescue squads were still dig- In the hospital annexe were ging. It was thought that one or forty patients and the staff. Most two bodies might still be under of the patients were in wards on the wreckage. the ground floor.
A nurse said that the bomb shattered the front of the build ing. but no one was hurt. "Two nine-year-old boys among the patients behaved wonderfully." she said.
Patients fit enough to be moved were sent home, and the more serious cases were removed other hospitals.
to
The shelter is in a big park, and
a few yards from a main road. Four,bombs straddled the road, one bomb fell half a mile from the park, one hit a corner of the shelter, and the other two fell in the park some distance from the shelter.
**My Daddy—”
At the third hospital an oil When the bomb hit the shelter hornb fell on a building used as a
to the concrete floor was buried kitchen and mess-room. The hos-
the top, and people were buried pital A.R.P. squad dealt with it under the floor. quickly and no great damage was Fifty men
Home of the local caused. A maternity home near – Guard helped A.R.P. squads to by was untouched.
dig out the dead and injured in the darkness.
in
The raiders swooped on one London borough four times five hours. Two people were killed in a housing estate, Two houses in a South-West London area were demolished Ly a bomb. Several injured propie have been extricated from the debris, but it is feared that there were some fatalities.
Five Buried
A heavy bomb which fell an 3 business building in Central Lon- den did considerable damage to the two top floors. There were no casualties.
Raiding 'planes circled over- head.
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Searchlights occasionally it up the sky and splinters fell around the rescuers. Frequently the rescuers threw themselves to the ground as more bombs fell in the district.
An A.R.P. :officer told a report- er.of several pathetic scenes, One boy about nine, after receiving treatment for shack, said:
"My daddy saved mo two weeks ago by lying on top of me. Now he is dead. My mummy was dead, too, but she is alive agalo."
Families were made homeless
The boy was one of "several and many shops were badly dam- aged when two high explosive from bombed homes of the East bombs fell in a North London road. His father was killed in There were some casualties, but the park shelter the previous day. His mother, rescued unconscious, was able to speak to the boy ber fore she was taken to hospital.
none fatal,
Every pane of glass within a quafter oli mile was shattered.
One house collapsed; burying. the five staupants in the debris.. Rescue aquaris got them out, and; with the exception of brúlado
Lovers Die
A young couple who weré to be
and scratches they were unmarried; next month were found
Farmed, w
dead in each other's arens..
Awane little boy, dire et but un- hurt, kept on repeating: "Where are -my- mummy and daddy? And where's my brother?" A girl of about six, picked up One of the bombs fell within unhurt, smiled to un ARP war 200 yards of a cinema,
den and said: "Has the “All clear' ere 500
A sixth member of the family, a five-year-old boy was blown Sout of the house the force of
the explosion; but he, too, unhurt,
was
people had taken refuge in part sunt yer mister?!
of the building converted into a
shelter.
There were about 150 people in
the shelter Long after the bomb
A West den vicar, on duty dropped-many of them wat await-i as an air raid warden, hearing the order to move.
hridkwork, after a
tomb, explosion, and found the
top of his church staple Shad RED MARSHAL
been demolished, "and ~stined
glass windows: broken;
The vicar did not stay to think
about his church, but helped - to
DIAMONDS
Marshals of the Red Army, are
tackle a small fire with a stirrup to wear a five-pointed star con pizmp, and called for the fire brig-sisting of thirty-one diamonds in ade, to attend to another fire Ina a gold and platinum mounting. --- gas main.
Reuter
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Grapnels from aeroplanes. Bayonet attachments for a sol- dier's boot.
Wires attached to aeroplane propellors to thrash round in the air.
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