RAID TRAGEDY
PRINTING WORKS BOMBED IN LONDON VICTIMS ENTOMBED UNDER. BLAZING RUINS. SEVEN BODIES RECOVERED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright! (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) LONDON. November 12. Bombs striking a printing works in London last night caused one of the most terrible raid tragedies so far. Firemen fought the flames for three hours. Since then a military pioneer corps has been working feverishly all day, endeavouring to extricate those trapped, cutting through steel girders and forcing a way through piles of masonry. Doctors crawled through smouldering debris to give morphia to the injured. The outside of the ruins resembles a pit mouth after a mining disaster. Friends and relatives have been standing for hours in a bitterly cold wind, waiting for news of those entombed. Seven bodies so far have been recovered, including that of the managing director. A number have been taken to hospital. Most of those rescued apparently were in a special basement shelter. A man, woman and child in a stationary car nearby were killed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1940, Page 6
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167RAID TRAGEDY Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1940, Page 6
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