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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1938.

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TWENTY-ONE YEARS AFTER-

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THE RAID OF THE

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Intense

If the bomb had fallen five Hent Was

it would have OR three months in craft was nearing perfection, and 1917 Britain lived in the railway companies and their minutes before

employees were usually among smashed up the 11.87 train to

It had been blown to smith- constant fear of the the first to receive official noti- Enfield, which had been stand-

ing alongside Patform 2, Gotha raids-daylight ication of impending attack.

The result does not bear creens by the bomb. The presi- air-raids by the new But on this morning no warn-

thought, for the train had been dent doctor had been killed in- stantly by a flying fragment. type of German bomb- ing had been received.

The first knowledge of an air a full one. ing biplanes.

I felt as if I had been trapped. Two orderlies of the R.A.M.C. Another bomb might come at in attendance were also killed. this particular morning was the

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only twice did they sound of bombs dropping. any moment. I scrambled into reach London — once

an empty carriage of the 11.40, amined ran nude from the terri-

still drawn which was Platform 5.

The second bomb came an in- stant later.

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MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1938.

DISCIPLINE REQUIRED

some

The guard blew his whistle

the

and waved his fing.

It was as the 11.40 train for in June and once in Epping was about to leave that

the first bomb was heard. Judy. That June raid was

worst air-raid of the whole

There war. were more casualties than in any raid.

145 people were killed

I

382 injured.

It was as though he had sig- Dining-Car nailed for the attack.

Above the din in the station other there sounded a deep, dull thud-

By INSPECTOR CHARLES VINER

Of

duty at (who was Liverpool-street Station when it was bombed)

ding that brought anxiety to and the eyes of those who heard it.

Rush For

Shelter

Demolished

up at

ble holocaust.

With the fireman and engine- driver and several others I rush- ed to the burning horsebox to uncouple it from the rest of the train.

The heat was too intense for It could not be

I heard it tearing through the us to get near. air. It fell on a main line train ahunted. The driver and fire-

shortly due to leave for Hunstan-

ton standing at No. 9 Platform.

man of the train to which it was

It exploded in the dining-car attached had fled for safety.

Ten people in the dining car with a terrifying detonation that

I immediately shouted to the seemed to rend the air and had been killed, including one guard of the 11.40, which had brought another mass of glass attendant, Alfred Daniels, whom already begun to draw out of from above. It showered on to I had been talking to earlier that the station, to stop the train. the top of the compartment in morning. Thie ho did. The driver pulled which I was sheltering with an up within the length of his own alarming rattle.

SHALL never forget engine. that summer morning of June 13, 1917.

was wrong.

Mr. James King, a regular pas-

People were screaming. The senger on the Hunstanton train Heads popped out of carriage sight of the demolished dining- he was a seed merchant living windows. Every one was ask- car was fearful. Nothing re at Coggeshall-was also among

They mained but its bogies and an in- those who were killed. It was an oppressively ing what hot day. The sun

beat were warned that an air raid on describable tangle of wreckage

London was in progress. With- and bodies. Pieces of the car Platform As fiercely down to the

оп

in a few seconds both train and were later found on No. 18 Plat-

form-50 yards away. heads of the hundreds of platform were empty. City workers who moved

Passengers at other platforms Crawled Under about the streets engaged were making a rush for the exits

in search of shelter. on their daily tasks.

Paving stones were red-hot to the feet. Asphalt paths gave to the tread. The reads shim- mered.

And all the time the dread- ful thudding noises drew nearer.

Engine

from

Dressing Station Several passengers

the coaches on either side of blazing dining-car to which the

I now decided that I would find flames had spread were running a safer place for sheltering. I about the platform with their I suddenly realised the danger jumped out on to the line and ran clothes burning on them.

Others were begging harassed of remaining under the glass roof to the engine of the Epping A canopy of haze spread it- of the station. I raced down train,

I crawled underneath. I officials to tell them where there self across the sky, so intense Platform 6 towards the open.

found two others there. The was shelter. was the heat.

The explosions were getting driver and the fireman.

or another. Men rebel against I was on duty at Liverpool- nearer.

or

supposed, street

sort

form 5.

Station. Beneath

No Warning

Received

its

oven. 1

Danger Zone

I had just reached the point where the glass cover ended when I heard the kind of strum- ming which always accompanied a bomb being released from air- craft during these raids.

Perhaps the raiders would "This is the end of us," the come back. The attack was still There were awful going on. fireman said laconically.

No further bombs fell on the sounds of continued bombing in station, however. The explo- the distance. sions were receding towards the cast.

After a while we all scrambled

out.

It was a terrible spectacle that met our eyes.

Fire engines were now arriv- ing. Ambulances, too, with the V.A.D. men to attend to wounded.

The injured were laid on plat- form seats. Doctors and the railway company's ambulance men bound their wounds.

Meanwhile the havoc that the raiders were causing in the City outside the station was appall- ing.

of the

areas shortly after-

All sorts of theories, simple and fancy, are advanced in these days to account for the unrest and strife in the world. Prob- ably one of the best of them is that mankind is in revolt against discipline. That is a vague sort of statement and needs explanation. Rebellion, of course, is a constant thing in one form

injustices, real against the social system, poli-glass roof the great vault of the Ran Into |tical methods and, finally, against terminus was like an law and order. And although stood outside my hut on Plat- some of man's revolts have had painful consequences, they are a sign of vigour and of health, and in them is the seed of progress.

Germany and air attacks were That is not to say all revolutions,

The wrecked dining-coach political and otherwise, are right. far from my mind. They were

IN MY SEARCH FOR SAFE- had caught alight. Flames leap- also far from the minds of the Rebels may be misled, and

passengers who were arriving TY I HAD ACTUALLY RUN ed high. They spread. fanatics there are

They fired a horsebox coupled who will

and departing by the trains that INTO THE DANGER ZONE

engine and first wreck the steamed to and from the various attack and seek to

The bomb fell in the centre of between the

visited several I soundest and sanest institutions, platforms. But inevitably all revolution is a

At this advance stage of the Platform 2 with a deafening ex- coach of a train from Ongar that.

plosion that brought down glass amid all the danger and tumult bombed struggle against some of war the warning system in the From the roof a little to the rear had just steamed into Patform wards. discipline, though it may be event of visitation by hostile air- of me in tens of thousands of 8 opposite the Hunstanton train.

A horse was imprisoned with- Bombs In jagged fragments. originally directed against some-

Crowded Street Its concussion blew me on to in. Its agonised whinnying was thing apparently entirely divorc always have done; and until

Bombs had been released pro- A stationary coach drawn up ed from laws and the law's their units, which are their the ground. I had received the awful to hear.

temporarily keepera. Wherever there is any citizens, learn to appreciate the full force of the explosion in my

blinded in a bay between Platforms 8 miscuously. Many had fallen in and 9 was also alight. It was crowded streets with tremendous attempt to govern there must be value of organised and enforced face. It

One weighing discipline, else the authority control and themselves perfect me.

"A crater that would easily used by a medical board which loss of life. an authority which they can collapses and chaos results. A respect and obey, there is little have taken a railway wagon on periodically visited the station nearly a hundredweight alone good citizen one who hope of any world laws being its depths had been torn in the to examine railway employees killed thirty-two persons and

platform. But no one was in to see if they were fit for ser- injured fifty-seven."

vice. recognises that discipline is recognised, much less enforced.

jured. essential to good order in his

It is perhaps significent that in own and his neighbours' lives, those countries which have re- but, for one reason or another. Icently seen revolution discipline oven the bent of citizens forgets to-day is more rigid than in the GRIN AND BEAR IT

Russia and that discipline is the essential in unrebellious states.

Germany are beautiful examples democratic as in other forms of of the effect of this revolt government, and is misled into against the existing order of thinking that all discipline and thing-ending in bloodshed-- all authority are handmaidens of and the necessity of reinforcing Italy, is of the new authority. nutocracy. The fallacy

likewise, has reverted to obvious.

stricter system of discipline than A good general is a good existed before the Fascists The firm marched on Rome. soldier and a good industrial

rule has certainly been a help gol worker. to these countries. It was executive is That is to say both must have essential or else worse chaos learned how to take orders and would have followed. But does carry them out before they not their experience teach where are capable of giving them. this temporary divorcing of dis-

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A man must learn to obey Some day it will be recognised the law before he seeks to that there must be international enforce it. But so often it is laws to which all poople shall be Of necessity there a fact that people seck a short-subject. cut to reform by destroying must be some sort of central what appear to be obstacles but authority to see to the enforce- ment of this code; and that re- what are more probably the quires the acceptance of the hulwarks of their society. If this system of international dis- is a common falling among in- cipline. The world is not ready dividuals it is not too much to for it yet. It may bo that only suppose that it has infected war will force the adoption of the system. But it is certain nations, for after all nations are that by this way alone can the human in their composition, and nations find permanent peace and coloured security. just different

Meanwhile, mon go sections of a map. Nations, on hating harness and suffering like men, resent discipline. They in consequence,

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Cont. 187 by limized Poclete Bradivata, kad,

Another fell on the Royal Mint and did considerable damage.

Shop-fronts had been blown

By Lichty Merchandise of every kind

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"Yeli, we just had the place redecorated-new fountain, new scats, new dishes and a new chicken!”

was strewn about the streets. A dray and its horse blown to pieces,

were

The roadways were like battle- felds. Firemen were removing the terrible signs of the raid. with streaming hose-pipes.

One missile-an aerial torpedo --feli on & London County Council school in Upper North- street,. Poplar.

two.

It

crashed through atoreys and exploded in the in- fants' classroom on the ground. floor,

Eighteen tiny children, mostly under six years of age, were killed, and more than twice that number cruelly injured. The ensuing scenes were heartrend- ing.

the

Although herself badly cut,. Mre.. mistress, infants' Middleton-she died four months. later as a result of the bomb's shock-assisted by other mis- atrove to tresses, pluckily pacify the hundred or so sur- viving children in the school.

They were marshalled in one of the rooms which had escaped damage and marched out into the playground away from tho-

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