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THE CITY CARRIES ON-A cafe damaged by a bomb In a recent raid in the City area, had its gas supply cut off. The enterprising' proprietor then served City workers with cups of tea on a stove in the street amid smoking debris. (Copyright, Fox).

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"I had a grand tussle, with a Messerschmidt 109, which lasted for about four minutes, but I managed to get him in the end." he wrote.

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THE MERCY of healing goes on through the SHIELDED

raids. Seven major London hospitals have been

hit, yet every one of them is keeping a casualty sta- BABY WITH tion open in tunnels and cellars to take patients from the shattered homes-around.

St. Thomas's has cleaned out its coal cellars, created operating theatres and X-ray treatment deep down under the building. Another famous hospital hit recently has all its valuable apparatus safe underground.

In these deep pits below the earth children are born and men and women have their torn bodies healed while hammer above, There is one story that stands

out.

HIS BODY

A young father jshielded his body little daughter with his when a bomb fell in the London area, lifted their Anderson shelter

out of the ground, flung it five yards, and then buried it under earth.

As casualties come in they are.

The father is Mr. Bradshaw is four-year-old carried straight down the deep and the child steps to the theatre. Sterilising Maureen, j

The rescue them,

workers who re- stoves under raiders pans have

from the shelter great bins hold pure water, hur leased them

the electric found the child unhurt, but both ricane lamps cover plant.

her parents had to be taken to Operations will go on with the hospital for treatment. most primitive power. Yet pati- ents who live underground. and do not see the day get sun-ray treatment to nourish them.

One Central London hospital had moved its valuable. X-ray apparatus from a top floor to one three storeys below. A bomb hit the top floor and shattered the wing the same night.

Surgeons shinned up ladders to rescue radium and the apparatus that hung in the ruts.

The building was dangerous, but they climbed around to rescue the precious specks that will save so many lives.

I went to London's most his- toric hospital, writes a reporter, They were evacuating patients. Most of them were air raid cas- ualties.

It is natural that the nurses and surgeons are ready. Some of them level to must wait ground

on classify the patients, organise the departments.

been

Asleep

"Undoubtedly the father saved the child from being hurt. Sho was asleep when the bomb fell only a yard from the shelter and tore a big crater there," salda. warden.

Six people were killed in the same street when a bomb wreck- ed three houses on the opposite

In another part air raid shel- ters at an A.F.S. station were partly buried by debris, includ- ing heavy concrete pillars flung on them by a bomb.

The firemen - all unhurt released: themselves.

Surgeons of great talent wait. at the entrance to the hospital, standing in their tin hate and white coats, knowing that Every hospital is a natural target. side of the road Several surgeons have killed in the raids, There are many who will still They had been hombed once wait through the raids to try to In their homes. They were rescue a limb or a breath of life bombed again in their wards. from the disaster that falls around They came out in stretchers.to them. be taken by ambulance to coun- try hospitals. Yet the rest of the hospital was reorganising.

Wards were being barricaded, operating theatres, with their mer- ciful anaesthetics and instruments, went downstairs to a cellar that had once stored splints.

There were still raid casualties

Who could not be moved. They slept through a daylight raid in the ground floor, wards that hud desisted the Arst bomb and were now reinforced.

Their service was always high and beyond distinction.

Now they wait in the halls of their hospitals, night after night, trying to stem the moments of agony of the shattered people who are brought to them for the sal- vation of their splence.

Maternity Ward Scene

that once breathed coal and dirt.. Day and night the nurses of 81. Thomas's work, their own rooms shattered above - them. They sleep on mattressés near their patients.

Food, medicines, and even

flowers are still produced. kek k I saw one maternity ward work- Behind them are the nurses who ing on a difficult caso while above take their own danger and thut of workmen were still trying to re- others so quietly. In the tunnels scue the beds and apparatus from... At St. Thomas's two bombs they wheel the sick and the in what had been a maternity ward.“ wiped out three wings that were jured to wards that were once Mercifully, the mothers and waiting for raid casualties. Now cellars..

babies had been moved. Mercifully the births still went on.

The debt is real to these people.

the whole of the casualty clear- There is a deep smell of ether ing station has gone underground. and antiseptic in these, corridors