1940-12-12 — Page 25

-THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 12, 1940. --

493 WAITED FOR SAFETY, KILLED

(From A Special Correspondent)

I WALKED YESTERDAY THROUGH THE WRECKED STREETS OF A LONDON EAST END DISTRICT FROM WHICH CAME THE 500 HOME- LESS REFUGEES WHO WERE TRAPPED AND KILLED WHEN THE SCHOOL IN WHICH THEY HAD TAKEN REFUGE WAS BOMBED.

Homeless after the previous night's raid, the families were gathered in the school, a modern two- storey concrete building. They were waiting for motor-coaches to come and take them away. coaches came. The next night more homes were wrecked ..

and still the coaches did not come..

Then the bombers came again, and this time they hit the school. Now there is nothing but a yawn-{ ing crater surrounded by hanging. walls.

At intervals the rescuers come across more bodies, but it will take days to clear away this tan- gled mass of twisted, girders and concrete that crashed on the homeless just as they were in sight of safety.

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Seven In 500 Escaped

Doctors and nurses dashed to the stricken school in response to a general call.'

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A German, airman' .who baled out over the south-east coast had with him document showing he had passed out as a.. pilot only six days.... before:

He had a letter from his sweetheart congratulating him and expressing the

A.R.P. RAMP hope that he would

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A ramp in bricks for air raid shelters was alleged at a meeting of Cardiff A.R.P. committee.

The city engineer, said he had to "scrounge" around old buildings to get bricks to com- plete communal shelters and to brick up wardens' posts. **

He had contracted for 12,000 a day and could get only 1,500. If they paid 70s. a thousand, he said, supplies would be forthcom-

Of the 500 men, women and children trapped in their tem-ing. porary haven, only seven escap- ed unhurt; the wounded are in hospital. To-day only the dead

remain.

Three nurses from a nearby maternity home were still there, but there was nothing for them to do. I brought them away in

my car.

"It is a terrible thing," said one of them. These people could have been got away. One of the bombs just missed our nurses' home. It would have been better if six of us had been killed than all these hundreds of poor folk." All the streets are deserted. The people still alive have gone for the time being. Most have gone in coaches' provided by the authorities.

Others have not waited for

the wheels of officialdom to turn they have gone by the best way they could..

Tried To Save Child

Many factories were selling small lots to people who were building their own shelters and paying almost any price for bricks.

"It looks as if there is profiteer- ing on people's lives," sald Coun- cillor Robinson.

A committee is to investigate complaints.

never have to raid Britain. She felt sure that if he did she would never see him again.

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MOVE OUT TO AVOID TIME BOMBS--7 DIE

AT LEAST SEVEN people, among several hun- dred who were evacuated from houses in a south- west London area during the night because of de-

·layed action bombs, were killed when a heavy bomb fell soon afterwards.

Here and there stood a lorry Less than two hours after they had settled. or a private car with a quiet family party packing what re- themselves in, a bomb smashed in a stone and brick mains of their personal belong-wall, killing and injuring those sheltering inside.

and did little damage.

ings.

Among those who came back A number of people were wait- to salvage what they could from ing to be taken in cars and`am- the wreckage was Mrs. Carroll, who was one of the few to be rescued.

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"We were sitting there listen. ing to the explosions," she said. "Iflung myself over a child by my side, but I could save her. "I think my brother, his wife and their four children were in there, too. They may have_got away before. I don't know. They may still be inside."

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'Sleeping Boy Escapes

A time bomb dropped in a road bulances to a nearby rest centre. opposite a store. Another fell near A member of the salvage a church which was damaged in squad said: "We found one little ¦ a recent raid. girl, aged about five, who had been sleeping with- her father and mother. When we carried her to safety she did not know that her father had been taken to hospital In a grave condition. "We took her to a first-aid post, where in a few minutes 'she was laughing and dancing."

There were two ralds on London during the night. The first "All clear was sounded earlier than usual, but shortly afterwards there was another alert.

Building Hit Twice

One building in Central London was struck twice. The first bomb exploded on a parapet, threw masonry into the basement area and smashed windows. The 'sec- ond bomb, some time later, fell in

a, basement area..

There were many people in the building at the time, but most of them were in the shelter and none was badly hurt. A girl who was standing within a few yards of where the second

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A large brewery in a South- West London area received a direct hit and was badly damaged. Only two or three slight casualties were reported.

Incendiary bombs fell on two blocks of a hospital in an east- ern suburban district of London, but the fires were quickly ex- tinguished by the staff and there were no casualties.

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When two bombe hit a road-

in south-east England way heavy plece of surface concrete was hurled through the roof of a touse some yards away and fell on a bed, missing by inchoa six-year-old Colin Deacon, a village choir boy, who was 16- leep.

Colin, was treated for head abrasions and shock..

: Bombs were dropped on several towns in south-cast England. In three towns damage was done to houses and there were several casualties, including some people killed.

A few bombs were dropped in A block of flats in Central Lon-other parts of the country, causing. slight damage and few casualties. don was also hit.:.

A number of houses, in the cost. of London were demolished by a time bomb which fell in the cen FAR EAST FREE tre of a street and exploded later

in the nights FRENCH MOVEMENT, WE All the people living in the

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FINED FOR CANING BOY OF SIX When a schoolmaster found a six-year-old boy shaking an apple small dwelling-houses in the tree in his orchard he took him in locality were in shelters at the the house and gave him four

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and as foram le, known | blows with a cane. there were no fatal casuņitiós, This story was told at Cam but a number of poople were bridge when the schoolmaster, taken to hospital with injuries. Hugh. Evason Percival, of Flam- Several bombafell close to steed Road, Cambridge, was aned He la M. Guy de Schrompre, gether in the denser part of a 25 and costs. for assaulting the former consular official in Tien-West London district, but they all boy. Harold John Bainbridge,.of tsin. Reuter.

Innded, in the middle of the road | Cherry Hinton Road, Cambridge."

Evidence of the growing strength of the Free French move- ment in the Far East was furnish- ed yesterday by the appointment by General de Gaulle of a repre- sentative in Singapore..

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