MURDERED BY GERMAN AIR ASSASSINS
FUNERAL OF BUTCHERED CHILDREN
PATHETIC SCENES AT THE
MEMORIAL SERVICE
, London, June 21. There were pathetic scenes at a memorial service for the infant school victims in East London. Sixteen coftins, laden with flowers, were placed in tho church over-night. A touching episode was the entry of twelve tiny claes-matos of the dead children. The King and Queen sent a message assuring the parents that '{■Key ..were thinking , of tho saddened homes and the early ending of young and innocent lives, which was luoro pathetic in the cruel and tragic circumstances. .:The Bishop of London preached. His Lordship said he had never witnessed a more touching sight. Ho mentioned that the school children of a country village had. sent him a wreath. Ho did not believe that the mourners wanted sixteen murdered German babes to lie dead in. order to avenge their own children, but they must demand strong naval and military action. Tho strongest punishment should be meted out to the perpetrators and designers of the raids who innrdered these oliildren.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn..
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3118, 23 June 1917, Page 10
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179MURDERED BY GERMAN AIR ASSASSINS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3118, 23 June 1917, Page 10
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