BOMB VICTIMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1940, Page 6

BOMB VICTIMS

PEOPLE KILLED IN LONDON BAR PARTS OF HOSPITAL DESTROYED. PIONEER CORPS AT WORK. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, October 14. A London public house was bombed last night. A majority of those killed and injured were in the public bar. Rescuers, hampered by escaping gas, worked all night extricating victims. An oil bomb destroyed parts of a hospital, including an operating theatre. The staff put out the flames and the patients were all evacuated. Today an explosive bomb falling in the grounds of the saine hospital demolished three houses, the occupants of which were sheltering and were uninjured. A bomb striking the middle of a block of flats killed a number of tenants sheltering in the basement, on which tons of debris crashed down. Flats bn either side were cut in half. Mobile 'cranes were used in recovering bodies. Bombs hit a row of cottages in one of the Home counties. Two persons were killed and thirteen injured. A Salvation Army citadel in the London area was wrecked last night. Five thousand members of the Pioneer Corps set out this morning to clearup London air raid wreckage. Heavy gunfire was heard in the London district during the first alert today. Anti-aircraft-defences went into action against a large four-engined bomber which was seen High over a London suburb. The raider was dropping bombs as it dived. It was reported later that it crashed in open ground. Isolated bombers attacked towns in the Thames Estuary, Midlands and Home counties this afternoon, demolishing business premises and houses and causing spine casualties. A plane attacking a Thames Estuary town caught hundreds of shoppers napping and dropped five bombs in residential districts, demolishing five houses, and, it is believed, burying many residents. GERMAN REPORT (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, October 14. A German communique says: “Our bombers continued their reprisal attacks on London, causing large fires. They also bombed Liverpool, the Midlands, and the South of England. “The enemy at night dropped bombs in Northern and Western Germany. The damage was slight and no military objectives were hit.”