1940-12-12 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 12, 1940.

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WAITED

FOR SAFETY,

KILLED

(From A Special Correspondent)

I WALKEĎ 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,

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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 wälls.

At intervals the rescuers come ácross 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.

Seven In 500 Escaped

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

Of the 500 men, women and

A.R.P. RAMP REVEALED

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 bulldings 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-

children trapped in their tem porary haven, only seven escaping. 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- Here and there stood a lorry or a private car with a quiet family party packing what re- mains of their personal belong- ings.

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," said Coun- cillor Robinson..

A committee is to investigate complaints.

PILOT FOR A WEEK

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

He had o letter from his sweetheart congratulating him and expressing the hope that he would never have to raid Britain. She felt sure that if he did she would never see him again.

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SPECIAL BREAD FOR JEWS

The Minister of Food has issued a licence.which permits the manu- facture and sale of the type of loaf known as "chollas," This bread is used for religious ritual and is made only for Jewish holidays and 'the Sabbath.

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.

Less than two hours after they had settled themselves in, a bomb smashed in a stone and brick to salvage what they could from wall, killing and injuring those sheltering inside.

Among those who came back

the wreckage was Mrs. Carroll,

A number of people were wait-

who was one of the few to be ing to be taken in cars and am-

rescued.

ing to the explosions," she said.

and did little damage.

A time bomb dropped in a road. opposite a store. Another fell near "We were sitting there listen-bulances to a nearby rest centre.

A member of the salvage a church which was damaged in "squad said: "We found one little a recent raid.

girl, aged who had with

"I flung myself over a child by my side, but I could

save her.

not

"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

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A large brewery in a South- mother. When we carried her West London area, received to safety she did not know that direct hit and was badly damaged. her father had been taken to Only two or three slight casualties hospital in a grave condition.

were reported. "We took her to a first-aid post, where in a few minutes she was laughing and dancing.”

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

BE HANGED Building Hit Twice

One building in Central London was struck twice. The first bomb`

and smashed windows. The sec-

"People found looting are liable to be sent to the exploded on a parapet, threw Old Bailey and upon con-masonry into the basement area viction hanged," Mr. Her-and bomb, some time Inter, fell in bert Metcalfe, the Old a basement area, Street magistrate, told a man accused of looting..

"One of these bright days person lopting, either from a dead body or damaged premises, will go for trial. Three months or six months is no good at all.

There were many people in the building at the time, but mest of them were in the shelter and nono was badly hurt," A girl who was standing within a few yards of where the second bomb fell escaped with cuts.

A block of flats in Central Lon- William Henry Hall, forty-five, don was also hit,

an A.R.P. rescue worker, describ- A number of houses in the cast

ed

ng

Incendiary bomba 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.

When two bombs hit a road- way in south-east England a heavy piece of surface concrete was hurled through the roof of a house some yards away and fell on a bed, missing by inches 81x-year-old Colin Deacon; a village choir-boy, who' was ns- leep.

Colin was treated for hend abrasions and shock, i q

Bombs were dropped on several towns in south-east England. In three towns damage was done 10. houses and there were several casualties, including some people

killed.

A few bombs were dropped in other parts of the country causing slight damage and few casualtics.

FINED FOR CANING

BOY OF SIXS

of Shadwell”: Gardens, of London were demolished by a pak n Shadwell, was discharged un-time bomb which, fell in the cen der the Probation of-Of-tre of a street and exploded later fenders Act on a- remanded in the night.

When a schoolmaster – found a

charge= of day stealing - money All the people living in the six-year-old boy shaking an apple from an electric meter in a house damaged by war operations, pode "The magistrate said to Hall: ́“You' can, tell any other§A.R.P. workers to keep their hands, oft property that does not belong to them

"I want it to go out as a warn- ing that the next time, there is a bad cuse I will sand it for trial,

amall" dwelling-houses in the | treo in his orchard he took him in locality were in shelters at the the house and gave him, four time, and as far as is known blows with a cano,,*** there were no fatal casunition, This story was told” at Com- but a number of people were bridge: when the schoolmuştër, taken to hospital with Injuries. Hugh Evason Percival, of Flám-- Several bombs fòll close - to- steed Road, Cambridge, was, fined gether in the denser part of a £5 and costa for assaulting the West London district, but they all boy. Harold, John Bainbridge, of landed in the middle of the road | Cherry Hinton Road, Cumbridge.

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