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TWENTY-ONE YEARS AFTER-
THE RAID OF THE GOTHAS
Intense
If the bomb had fallen five Heat Was OR three months in traft was nearing perfection, and 1917 Britain lived in the railway companies and their minutes before it would have employees were usually among smashed up the 11.37 train to constant fear of the the first to receive official noti- Enfield, which had been stand- Gotha raids-daylight ñcation of impending attack. ing alongside Patform 2.
But on this morning no warn- air-raids by the new type of German bomb- ing had been received. ing biplanes.
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Monday, June 13, 1838.
DISCIPLINE REQUIRED
All sorts of theories, simple aunt fancy, are advanced in these days to account for the unrest and strife in the work. Prob- ably one of the best of them is that mankind is in revolt against discipline. That is a vague sort of statement and needs some explanation. Rebellion, of course, is a constant thing in one form or another. Men rebel against injustices, rent supposed, against the social system, poli- tical methods and, finally, against law and order. And although sutne of man's revolts have had minful consequences, they are a sign of vigour and of health, and In them is the seed of progress. That is not to say all revolutions, political and otherwise, are right. be misled, and Rebels may lunatics there
who will
or
was
the
It had been blown to smith-
not The result does bear creens by the bomb. The presi thought, for the train had been dent doctor had been killed in- stantly by a flying fragment. a full one.
I felt as if I had been trapped. Two orderlies of the R.A.M.C. Another bomb might come at in attendance were also killed. any moment, I scrambled into Several men waiting to be ex- It was as the 11.40 train for an empty carriage of the 11.40, amined ran nude from the terri-
still drawn up at which was Platform 5.
The second bomb came an in- stant later. Dining-Car
in June and once in Epping was about to leave that July.
the first bomb was heard.
The guard blew his whistle That June mid
worst air-raid of the and waved his flag.
It was as though he had sig- There whole war.
nalled for the attack. were more casualties
Above the din in the station than Dz any other there sounded a deep, dull thud-
ding that brought anxiety raid.
and the eyes of those who heard it.
Rush For
145 people were killed
382 injured.
I
By INSPECTOR CHARLES VINER
(whi
on chaly at Liverpool-street Station when it was bombed)
SHALL never forget that summer morning of June 13, 1917.
Shelter
to
Demolished
I heard it tearing through the air. It fell on a main line train shortly due to leave for Hunatan- ion standing at No. 9 Platform.
ble holocaust.
With the fireman and engine- driver and several others I rush- ed to the burning borsebox to uncouple it from the rest of the train.
The hent was too intense for It could not be us to get near. shunted. The driver and fire- man of the train to which it was
It exploded in the dining-car attached had fled for safety.
Ten people in the dining car with a terrifying detonation that
to rend the air and had been killed, including one
I immediately shouted to the seemed guard of the 11.40, which had brought another mass of glass attendant, Alfred Daniels, whom It showered on to I had been talking to earlier that already begun to draw out of from above.
the station, to stop the train, the top of the compartment in morning. This he did. The driver pulled which I was sheltering with an up within the length of his own alarming rattle. engine.
WAH
Mr. James King, a regular pas-
People were screaming. The senger on the Hunstanton train Heads popped out of carriage sight of the demolished dining- he was a seed merchant living re at Coggeshall-was also among windows. Every one was ask- car was fearful. Nothing It Was an oppressively ing what wrong. They mained but its bogies and an in- those who were killed. hot day. The sun
beat were warned that an air raid on describable tangle of wreckage fiercely down on
London was in progress. With and bodies. Pieces of the car Platform As to the heads of the hundreds of in a few seconds both train and were later found on No. 18 Plat-
platform were empty. City workers who moved about the streets engaged on their daily tasks.
Paving stones were red-hot to the feet. Asphalt pathe gave to the tread. The roads shim- mered.
A canopy of haze spread it self across the sky, so intense was the heat.
Passengers at other platforms were making a rush for the exits
in search of shelter.
And all the time the dread- ful thudding noises drew nearer.
form-60 yards away.
Crawled Under
Engine
from
Dressing Station Several passengers coaches on either side of the blazing dining-car to which the
I now decided that I would find flames had spread were running a safer place for sheltering. I about the platform with suddenly realised the danger jumped out on to the line and ran clothes burning on them. of remaining under the glass roof to the engine of the Epping of the station. I raced down Platform 5 towards the open,
their
Others were begging harassed train. I crawled underneath. I officials to tell them where there found two others there. The was shelter. The explosions were getting driver and the fireman.
ncarer.
I was on duty at Liverpool- street Station. Beneath its glass roof the great vault of the Ran Into terminus was like an oven. stood outside my hut on Plat- form 5.
No Warning
Received
I
Germany and air attacks were
Danger Zone
"This is the end of us," the fireman said laconically.
No further bombs fell on the station, however. The explo- sions were receding towards the
After a while we all scrambled
out.
Perhaps the raiders would come back. The attack was still going on. There were awful sounds of continued bombing in the distance.
Fire engines were now arriv- ing. Arabulances, too, with V.A.D. men to attend to the wounded,
I had just reached the point east. where the glass cover ended when I heard the kind of strum-
The injured were laid on plat- ming which always accompanied
It was a terrible spectacle a bomb being released from air-
form seats, Doctors and the that met our eyes.
railway company's ambulance The wrecked dining-coach men bound their wounds. far from my mind. They were craft during these raids. also far from the minds of the IN MY SEARCH FOR SAFE- had caught alight. Flames leap-
Meanwhile the havoc that the passengers who were arriving TY I HAD ACTUALLY RUN ed high. They spread.
raiders were causing in the City and departing by the trains that
They fired a horsebox coupled outside the station was appall-
ing. soundest and sanest institutions. platforms.
are
attack and seek to wreck the steamed to and from the various INTO THE DANGER ZONE
I visited several of the areas shortly after-
Crowded Street
The bomb fell in the centre of between the engine and first But inevitably all revolution is a At this advance stage of the Platform 2 with a deafening ex- coach of a train from Ongar that struggle against some sort
of war the warning system in the plosion that brought down glass amid all the danger and tumult bombed
from the roof a little to the rear had just steamed into Patform wards discipline, though it may be event of visitation by hostile air of me in tens of thousands of 8 opposite the Hunstanton train.
A horse was imprisoned with- Bombs In originally directed against some-
jagged fragments, thing apparently entirely divorc- always have done; and until
Its concussion blew me on to in. Its agonised whinnying was ed from laws and the law's their units, which
the ground. I had received the awful to hear. their are
A stationary coach drawn up Bombs had been released pro- keepers. Wherever there is any citizena, learn to appreciate the full force of the explosion in my
temporarily binded in a bay between Platforms 8 miscuously. Many had fallen in attempt to govern there must be value of organised and enforced face. It
and 9 was also alight. It was crowded streets with tremendous discipline, else the authority control and themselves perfect me.
would easily used by a medical board which loss of life. One weighing A crater that an authority which they can collapses and chaos results. A
respect and obey, there is little have taken a railway wagon on periodically visited the station nearly a hundredweight alone good citizen is опе who hope of any world laws being its depths had been torn in the to examine railway employees killed thirty-two persons and recognises that discipline is recognised, much less enforced. platform. But no one was in to see if they were fit for ser- injured fifty-seven.
jured.
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It was
essential to good order in his
It is perhaps significent that in own and his neighbours' lives, those countries which have re- but, for one reason or another,cently seen revolution discipline even the best of citizens forgets to-day is more rigid than in the that discipline is the essential in unrebellious states. Russia and democratic as in other forms of of the effect of this revolt Germany are beautiful examples government, and is misled into against the existing order of thinking that all discipline and | thing-ending in bloodshed- all authority are handmaidens of and the necessity of reinforcing autocracy. The fallacy
is of the new authority, Italy, likewise, has reverted to obvious.
stricter system of discipline than A good general is a good existed before the Fascists The firm Foldier and a good industrial rule has certainly been a help
marched on Rome. executive is a good worker. to these countries. That is to say both must have essential or else worse chaos learned how to take orders and would have followed. But docs carry them out before they not their experience teach where are capable of giving them. this temporary divorcing of dis-
cipline leads? A man must learn to obey
Some day it will be recognised the law before he seeks to that there must be International enforce it. But so often it in laws to which all people shall be In fact that people seek a short-subject. Of necessity there cut to reform by destroying must be some sort of central what appear to be obstacles but authority to see to the enforce- ment of this code; and that re- wlint are more probably the
quires the acceptance of the bulwarks of their society. If this system of international dis- is a common failing among in- cipline. The world is not ready dividuals it is not too much to for it yet. It may be that only suppose that it has infected war will force the adoption of the system. But it la certain nations, for after all nations are that by this way alone can the human in their composition, and nations find permanent peace and just different coloured security. Meanwhile, men go sections of a map. Nations, on hating harness and suffering like men, resent discipline. They in consequence.
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Another fell on the Royal Mint and did considerable damage.
Shop-fronts had been blown
By Lichty in Merchandise of every kind.
"Yeh, we just had the place redecorated-new fountain, new acats, new disher and a new chicken)"
was strewn about the streets.
A dray and its horse were blown to pieces.
The roadways were like battle- fields.
Firemen were removing the terrible signs of the raid with streaming hose-pipes.
One missile--an aerial torpedo -fell on ↓ London County Council school in Upper North- street, Poplar.
It
crashed through two storeys and exploded in the in- fants' classroom on the ground floor,
Eighteen tiny children, mostly under six years of age, were killed, and more than twice that number cruelly injured. The ensuing scenes were heartrend- ing.
the
Although herself badly cut, infanta' mistress, Mra, Middleton-she died four months later as a result of the bomb's shock-assisted by other mis- tresses,
to pluckily strove pacify the hundred or so sur- viving children in the school.
They were marshalled in one ¡of the rooms which had escaped damage and marched out into the playground away from the
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