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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 16, 1940.

RAIDERS MAY BE

QUIT HOSPITAL AFTER BOMBING BEATEN IN 25 MINUTES

PEOPLE LEFT their shelters to help evacuate a South-East London hospital hit by a bomb during a night air raid. The evacuation was completed in twenty-five minutes.

The volunteers

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many of them women help- ed to carry the patients from a ward near the bomb crater. "It was pretty hot at the time," a hospital official said. "Bombs and anti-aircraft gunfire could be heard all round.

"The work of the staff had been so well rehearsed," he added, "that it was not necessary to give orders. Everything went like clock work."

Down Fire Escape

The bomb dropped in the minin staircase, which was shattered. and patients in wards nearby none of whom was injured were carried down the fire escapes, There was only one casualty, a doctor, who was trapped in a small room at the top of the building. A firemen brought him down a ladder and an operation was per- formed. His condition is satisfac- tory

About half the patients in the

BOMB ON SHELTER KILLS 14

People who had come from as far away as Tot- tenham, N., and the East End to what they con- hospital were air-rald victims.sidered the safety of an The hospital carried on bravely underground shelter in a quickly put out, had been caused Western suburb of Lon- by the bomb, and the main sup- don, were killed and in- uff. There was a limited emer-jured when the shelter gency supply of water, and coal received a direct hit by a

bomb.

under difficulties. A fire, which was

ples of gas and water were cut

fires were lit for heat.

This hospital was one of three which were bombed in London during the night.

Brave Boys

A bomb also damaged the in- patients' department of a West London hospital.

In the hospital annexe were forty patients and the staff. Most of the patients were in wards on the ground floor.

A nurse said that the bomb shattered the front of the build- ing, but no one was hurt. "Two nine-year-old boys among the patients behaved wonderfully," she said.

Twenty-four people were trapped in one of the five cor- ridors of the shelter. Fourteen persons, including several chil- dren, were killed.

Fifteen hours after the bomb fell rescue squads were still dig- ging. It was thought that one or two bodies might still be under the wreckage.

The shelter is in a big park, and A few yards from a main road. Four bombs straddled the road. one bomb fell half a mile from the park, one hit a corner of the shelter, and the other two fell in the park some distance from the

Patients fit enough to be moved | shelter. were sent home, and the more serious cases were removed to other hospitals.

At the third hospital an oil bomb fell on a building used as a kitchen and mess-room. The hos- pital A.R.P. squad dealt with it quickly and no great damage was caused. A maternity home near Ly was untouched.

The raiders swooped on one London borough four times In five hours. Two people were killed in a housing estate. Two houses in a South-West London aren were demolished by a bomb. Several injured people have been extricated from the debris, but it is feared that there. were some fatalities.

Five Buried

A heavy bomb which fell on a business building in Central Lon- don did considérable damage to the two top floors. There no casualties.

were

Families were made homeless and many shops, were badly damn- aged when two high explosive bombs fell in a North London road There were some casualties, but none fatal,

"My Daddy—”

When the bomb hit the shelter the concrete floor was buried to the top, and people were buried under the floor.

Filly men of the local Home Guard helped A.R.P. squads to dig out the dead and injured in the darkness.

Raiding 'planes circled over- head,

Searchlights occasionally lit up the sky and splintera fell around the rescuers. Frequently -the rescuers threw themselves to the ground as more bombs fell in the district.

An A.R.P. officer told a report- er of several pathetic scenes, One boy about nine; after receiving treatment for shock, said:

"My daddy saved me two weeks ago by lying on top of me. Now ho is dead. 'My: mummy was dead, too, but she is allye again.”,

The boy was one of several from bombed homes of the East End His father was killed in the park shelter the previous day. His mother, rescued unconscious, Every pane of glass within a was able to speak to the boy be quarter of a mile was shattered.fore she was taken to hospital.

One house-collapsed; burying the five occupants in the detrain Rescue squads got them out, and. with* the "onception of bruises. "and" "scratches: the

harmed:

Asixth member of the family. y; was blowił the force of

the

the explosCET

One of the

300 yards-bl people had take

of the building shelter.

Yell

MOVEYS

Lovers Die

A young couple who were to he marned next month were found dead in each other's arms,

One little boy, dazed but unr hurt, Kent, an reporting: “Wherb krozmy mummy and daddy? And-where mamy brothas? A girl of about six, pleket"; unhurt, smiled ty un (A.R.P. war đón and said, “Has the 'All clear"

yet mister?"

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Hre were about 150 people in elfer. - Long after the barab

ed, many of them sat await».

to move

SOON

It is believed that secret inventions are bringing us near to the time when the Germans will lose so high a percentage of their night. bombers that they may cease raiding.

new

Certain details of the ground defences, including im- proved searchlights, gunnery pre- diction, and fuse setting, may soon be disclosed.

Prol. E. N. da C. Andrade, Scientifle Adviser to the Ministry, gave details of some of the in- genious and sometimes comical notions of inventors who want to win the war.

The Death-Ray

"Death-ray and perpetual mo- tion inventions arc the most numerous." said Professor An- drade, "Each Comes with his backer, like an old-fashioned prize-fighter.

"Most British inventors offer their Ideas free but some for. eigners have asked anything from € 100,000 to £ 1,000,000 for their notions on winning the war."

Other suggestions were:

which would solidify into a jelly round the enemy, and deliver him up like chicken in aspic.

To project a gaseous substance

Grapnels from aeroplanes. Bayonet attachments for a sol- dier's boot.

Wires attached to aeroplane propellors to thrash round in the air.

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