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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 11, 1940.

BOMB STRIKES A CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL THEY FOUND

(By A Special Correspondent)

EVERY BABY was found asleep in its cot after the bombing of a maternity hospital during night murder raids on London: Nurses Joan Jeffes and Joan Bentley, two of the nurses who rushed from their own wrecked quarters to help get the babies to safety, told me::

"When we got to their ward on the ground floor their blankets were sprinkled with broken glass and covered in debris. But when we managed to un- cover them, every baby was asleep."

These two nurses, who had escorted the patients and babies in A.R.P. ambulances to an evacu- atlon hospital through the night; were still wearing pyjamas, dress- ing-gowns and slippers as they went through London streets at midday the next day.

The nurses' home, in which they were sleeping when the bombs fell, is too dangerous to enter. Their possessions are buried

in it.

Ten minutes after the bomb fell a man in pyjamas, a coat thrown over his shoulders, rushed up to the entrance,

"Are you all right, LII?" he yelled. A woman wrapped in blankets, carrying a tiny bun- die in each arm, answered: "Don't worry.

them I've got both here. They're safe, dad,"

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UNEXPLODED BOMB OF LAST WAR

Digging in a Rams- gate garden, where they were installing an Anderson shelter, Corporation

e m ployees stopped work abruptly when they came across an un-

A.R.P. WARDEN exploded bomb. INSPECTION

DATE CHANGE

with the Inspection of the Corps It is announced in connection

of Air Raid Wardens by His Excellency, The Acting Gov- ernor, that owing to unforseen circumstances it will not be pos- sible for His Excellency -to in- spect the corps on Sunday, 22nd December. The inspection will therefore take place on Saturday, 21st December 1940 at 3:30 p.m.

These were the parents of the hospital's newly born twins. The theatre where the youngest had been born six hours previous-Hong Kong, appeals to all em- The Chief Air Raid Warden, ly is wrecked. Window frames have been thrown across the table. their Staffs Air Raid Wardens to ployers of labour who have on Masonry covers the floor.

The remains of a wrecked crib give them every facility for at- lies on top of a pile of debris. A tending the parade. row of bottles stands intact-the only thing in that room which re- mains in order.

"My twins, Jimmy and Rhea, were under my bed when the bomb fell," said Mrs. Lily Hanley, whose home is near the hospital. "I heard a tremendous explo sion and covered my head with the bed clothes.

"We Stay For .

"Even that didn't prevent me from being blinded for a moment by the dust which Alled the air.

"I thought we were finished." "I watched the mothers being

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A bomb disposal until of the R.E.'s hurried to the scene and brought to the surface a small bomb dropped in the last

war.

"It was of the 25lb. type, and should have exploded on contact," said the N.C.O. in, charge. "It must have been lying there for nearly twenty-five : years."

ARP HEROES

SOUVENIRS OF 2ND WARNING

DUNKIRK'

Working in a district which has

It is an offence to collect sou- been bombed so frequently that

venirs from. enemy

'planes

brought down in Britain, Chich-it has become known as the "little ester magistrates warned tho pu'lic:

Dunkirk" of London, five A.R.P. wardens are now the heroes of their district:

Savage, emphasised that immedi- streets and in a fortnight thirty- Their sector is thirty-to-forty The Chief Constable, Mr. E.-W.. carried on stretchers to the am. bulance which was to take them

ately they land these 'planes be- seven H.E. bombs have fallen on to a hospital in a safer area.

come the property of the Air | it.

unauthorised Not a house remains undamag- They were all laughing and Ministry, and no Joking

person has even one whose face

any right to touch ed.. The wardens: are homeless, was badly scratched' and brula-

Yet they continue their patrols. ed.

"Anyone would think they were going to Brighton for the day," said the driver.

"I'd just like to get my hands on Hitler

for five minutes. I'd pay him for this," said Mrs. Rose Parlons.

"Two minutes would do for me:" smiled another mother... N

Sald the hospital secretary: "The nurses were wonderful."

The placard "WE STAY FOR THOSE WHO NEED US" — still rests undamaged above the hospi-

tal,

them.

dener, of. Bosham, was fined £1 William George Gough, a gar- for stealing an oxygen cylinder

from a 'plane which crashed and the magistrates made it known that future cases would be dealt with more severely.

The cylinder £4 5s.

was valued at

Gough, told a constable he bomb, and when the constable thought it was an incendiary

called at his house he found the cylinder in a bucket of water in the garden.

"Last night a huge bomb blow up the last remaining houses undamaged in our sector," Mr. Clayton, Post Warden, told reporter.

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less than two minutes after the "When I arrived on the scene,

explosion, I found they were al- ready doing rescue work.

"Every one of them deserves the George Cross.”

Several people were killed by this bomb.

A warden, Edward Benmore, nineteen, and his fiancee, Peggy Bartlett, seventeen, were killed when their Anderson was hit.

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