BRAVE CHILDREN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 December 1940, Page 6

BRAVE CHILDREN

UNDISMAYED BY BOMBS IN BRISTOL NURSES SHOW FINE SPIRIT OF DEVOTION. ATTACKS IN OTHER AREAS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, December 3. The Germans last night concentrated their attack on Bristol. Children and nurses displayed remarkable heroism when a hospital was bombed. The nurses, some of whom are still in their teens, threw themselves over the children to protect them. The children sang and cheered as the bombs fell round them while they were being carried to safety. Some babies did not wake up. despite the pandemonium. Several persons were killed while sheltering in the cellar of an inn. They included the licensee, his wife, daughter and son-in-law and their baby. Anti-aircraft batteries drove off raiders trying to penetrate another south-west town. Two explosive bombs and a hundred incendiary bombs were showered on an outlying Welsh coastal town last night. Fires were quickly extinguished. Diving out of clouds, the enemy dropped nine bombs in the London area this morning. A few minutes after a family had left for work, a bomb fell directly on their home. A single low-flying raider bombed a London residential district. In one house a woman was blown out of bed by a bomb blast. Two policemen were gassed while rescuing people from under debris.