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By A Special · Correspondent
TWO BIG BOMBS crashed in a London street. This is what happened: Two people were sheltering in a disused water tank standing inside a building which received a direct hit.
Prize lie of the Nazis is the one recently issued in the limited quarters where it had hope of be- ing swallowed that Hit- ler himself, in one of his periodic flights over Lon-
The tank was blown into the air. It came down- don, personally observed on top of the wrecked building The two people the King and the Prime were still inside it and very much alive a Minister dashing for shel-The other bomba thousand pile of bricks and dusty directing
pounder landed opposite awardens to them. ter in a state of abject building in which Old Bill is night. They were extremely brave,
panic!
Thus, the Duke of Devonshire told the House of Lords, seemed incredible, but to simple-minded people, as in the Near East, where
disaminated, it did gain amount of credence, and pred steps were taken to deal
with f
watchman,
Bill, his spell of duty over, was asleep when the explosion wreck- ed the front of the building and shattered every piece of. glass around him.
ar.
When anxious wardens
he told rived to rescue Bill them to go away. "No Hitler
said a warden who helped!: to, recue thêm • "They kept: dali- ing out Alittle to the left or A little to the right until we .reached themás, se
"All they asked for when we got them out was a cup of tea."
· Baby's Escape With a doctor standing by with or anybody else is going to oxygen, ARP wardens worked spoll my sleep," he said. And desperately in darkness for three- turned over in his bad of broken | quarters of an hour to dig out a the three-month-old baby from glass and debris.
wreckage of a house in a London suburb.
Girls' Bravery
almost
The Government did not pro-
to depart from pose
the present
In a house which was method of combating Nazi lice-levelled to the ground three young girls were buried by debris. They were dressed only in thin night clothes and lay between a heavy
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They reached the baby-and found it unhurt.
Over the child rafters had formed a protective barrier which took the weight of tons of crashing debris. The other occupants house were unhurt,
of this
Blind- Folk Bombed Seventy blind men and women in ari institution at a South-West- town were being led back from their shelters when one bomb hit a shelter and another the bed-
rooms to which they were be- ing taken.
Only two men were injured, both by flying glass.
"There was no panic," the ma- tron told a reporter. "Some of the men were thrown on the floor, but they picked themselves up, and the attendants and ay- self led them to another shelter that had not been touched.
"I could not find an old man, but just as we were going to the shelter he came along the corridor saying: It is all right, matron. I have got my gas-mask and over- coat,"
RAGGED BODY OF RAIDERS
By A Special: Correspondent.
The first bombing squa- drons came over Dover high during the morning, taking advantage of huge
arks, which roof theChannel, and xcept for a large
the Dov
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