HOSPITALS HIT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1940, Page 6

HOSPITALS HIT

BY GERMAN BOMBERS HEROIC EFFORTS BY NURSES AND DOCTORS. DISREGARD OF RAIDERS OVERHEAD. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, October 17. One hundred and twenty raiders attempted to reach London this afternoon. They were chased off and dropped bombs on a south-east town, where there were a few casualties. A family of five were wiped out as a result of a direct hit on an Anderson shelter. Five others were killed in another shelter in last night’s raids. Two more hospitals in South-East England were hit. A nurse at one was killed and members of the staff and patients were injured. Nurses and doctors worked in the darkness, taking the patients to safety and not relaxing their attention even while raiders were circling overhead. Those severely injured were mostly nurses. The other hospital was one for mental patients. Some of the patients had remarkable escapes. The roof and walls were severely damaged and windows were shattered. Rescuers found patients safe with debris fallen around them. A third bomber was brought down last night in the Liverpool district. The bodies of three members of the , crew were near the wreckage.

RED ARMY VIEW AIR SUPREMACY BELONGS TO BRITAIN. ROYAL AIR FORCE SPREADING ITS ACTIVITIES. (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) MOSCOW, October 17. The Red Army organ says air supremacy does not belong to Germany but to Britain. The R.A.F. is not crushed, but is spreading its activities. GERMAN REPORT (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, October 17. A German communique says: “Our Air Force continued its attacks on London and other targets of military importance in the Midlands and South of England. Naval guns forced back several enemy warships attempting to approach the coast at the western mouth of- the English Channel. The British bombed German territory at night. Various residential districts were hit and houses damaged.”