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HEARING SCREAMS from the garden, eleven- year-old Philip Anslow, of Beech Road, North, Stour Bridge, rushed out to find the air raid shelter on
fire.
He dashed in and brought out his eleven- month-old brother Michael, and laid him on the grass. Then he went in again through the flames and smoke, brought out his sister Jennifer, Michael's twin, and handed her to his mother who had run into the garden.
NIGHT IN A BOMBED HOSPITAL
Caught by the sirens in
By this t'me the shelter was like a furnace, and Phillip refused to let his mother get near it.
Calmly walking through the flames for the third time, suffering
burns, agony from
he brought out his four - and - a - half - year-old brother David to safety.
Philip and David are now in the same ward in a Stourbridge hos-
a part of London from pital suffering from burns. Michael
which I could not get and Jennifer were unhurt. San Francisco date, 10th January) | home, spent the night "The three children were sleep-
as a guest in a hospital. ing in the shelter in
raid," Mrs. Anslow said, "I DATE & TIME: Because of the atmos- I think the candle must have fallen
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phere of calm and unob-over and set light to the celluloid trusive efficiency, it was on the baby's gas mask. one of the quietest nights|
I have had since the in- tensive bombing of Lon- don began.
Not so for the hospital staff,; however. I slept soundly through 4.00 pm. many hours of heavy gunfire. One 5.00 p.m. of the medical staff told me after-
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4.00 p.m. 5.00 p.m. 7.00 p.m.
5.00 p.in. 7.00 p.m.
wards that incendiary bombs had been dropped "all over the place." Doctors, nurses and the rest of the staff had been working for three hours treating casualties be- fore the incendiary bombs began to fall. These were dealt with so efficiently that neither I nor the patients knew anything about
Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, them.
U.S.A. and Europe via "Pan-Ameri- The engineer and a staff of por- can Airways and Trans-Atlantic Ser-ters went round putting them out
One which fell through the roof of a disused ward on the first floor was extinguished by two of the sisters with sand.
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A family of seven who had been buried under debris for four hours were brought to the hospital dur- ing the night. I was told that the two youngest-George and Robert, 12.30 p.m. aged ten and eight quarrelled Air Mall by Sea to Singapore to connect and fought each other almost con- with the "British Overseas Airways". | tinually in their basement prison.
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"They quarrelled like Kilkenny 5.00 Pm cats," said one of their sisters.
They were the last to be res- cued and they continued their fight 6.00 p.m. In the ambulance on the way to 7.00 p.m. hospital.
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It was most reassuring to see the ward where the casualties
were housed in the morning. Two coal fires were burning, giving an air of comfort, 4.00 p.m. blankets meds the whole room 4.30 p.m. look gay. Sisters and nurses went cheerfully about their tasks, and 4.00 p.m. there was a constant stream of relatives, who came in the most
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"Philip certainly saved their lives. He was so quick in getting Into the shelter that my older boy, Geoffrey, dashing out of the house, and not realising the children were all safe. went Into the fire and found the shel. ter empty.
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I have eight children and train them all to help me. It was while Philip was at the sink wash- ing up that he heard the screams from the shelter.
"He didn't wait to call any. body but rushed out and rescued them all on his own. But he says little about it.
written me
In a letter he has from the hospital, his one thought is for the twins."
The hospital stated that Philip is much better and that David is improving.
STRANGLED GIRL- POLICE CORDON
Police cars cordon round the area in which
formed a moving
fifteen-year-old Mary Hagan, of Waterloo, Liverpool, was found strangled in a road blockhouse,"
It is thought that a soldier with an East. Lancashire accent might be able to give some information, and the military police in the dis-
CO-
and the pink trict have been invited to
operate. They are questioning all soldiers in the local barracks who had outside passes,
One soldier who was seen near the blockhouse on several One of the casualties was a occasions during the past week, young policeman with a burn on
is described as being between his foot.
He told me that while twenty-five. and thirty, with a trying to put out a fire bomb that rather sallow complexion. He fell on the police station one of his wore battle dress, and people who boots was set alight and in pull had seen him described him as ing it off one of his hands. was being rather untidy.
12.15 p.m.--Short Service of Interces burned. Though he must have The inquest on the girl was
suffered intense plan he was won-formally opened 12.30 p.m.-Dance Favourites of Not-derfully cheerful,
for a month;
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Brothers. Hildegardé and The West- ern Brothers.
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