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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1940, Page 5

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HOSPITAL PATIENTS TRAPPED UNDER DEBRIS BRAVE EFFORTS BY NURSE MANY PLANES OVER MIDLANDS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) LONDON, September 6. Demolition squads are still searching for some of the victims of yesterday’s and last night’s bombings. Several three-storey houses in a north-west town collapsed upon cellars in which the occupiers were sheltering. The number of planes over the Midlands is reported to have been the largest since the outbreak of war. Chronic patients in a ward suffered worst when a bomb hit a Kent hospital. Several women were trapped under heavy debris. A nurse, clad only in a nightdress, crawled into wreckage to give injections of morphia. BOMBERS HIT HOME DAMAGE IN GERMANY. INTERESTING ADMISSIONS. LONDON, September 5. Though the Germans are careful to prevent details of the damage done by the R.A.F. from leaking out to Germany, indications of how extensive it is do trickle through from time to time. Several of Hitler’s statements yesterday made it clear that the British bombers are hitting home. A hint of the damage done to German railways and rolling stock is given by an advertisement appearing in a Berlin weekly newspaper. This is headed ‘'Every Truck Is Vital,” and it appeals to German industrialists to economise in the use of goods wagons. In future, it says, all railway wagons are to be loaded up to one ton above their authorised capacity.