REMARKABLE ESCAPES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1940, Page 6

REMARKABLE ESCAPES

during night raids ON LONDON TWENTY-NINE KILLED IN N.E. TOWN. OTHERS BURIED UNDER DEBRIS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) u LONDON, October 11. “There were many remarkable escapes in last night’s raids. Four bombs which straddled a street flung people from their beds in shelters and cellars of houses and caused a fire, but there were only a few minor injuries. A seven-storey office building, with wreckage on three sides, remained standing undamaged except for blast effect on doors and windows. A large number of people who were sleeping in a shelter below were safe. One'of a number of time bombs fell within a few yards of a hospital from which the patients and staff had been evacuated to other hospitals within half an hour. Incendiary bombs damaged a technical college in the same area and an explosive bomb wrecked a house, killing one and injuring three. A bomb brought down three office flat premises. Gas started a fire and several buildings containing flats were wrecked in a street leading to a famous square. Rescuers, digging throughout the night, brought out seven people from cellars in a residential district. Twenty-nine people were killed in a raid on a thickly populated district in < a north-east town last night. Twelve 1 houses were demolished and 50 were ] severely damaged. The death roll is i incomplete. A number of people, it is feared, are still buried under wreck- c age. r