LARGE SHELTERS
DANGER OF DIRECT HIT BY BOMBS. SIXTY-ONE KILLED IN RECENT DISASTER. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, February 28. Complaining that despite warnings many people were still using big shelters, Captain Cunningham-Reid (Conservative) said in the House of Commons that a heavy bomb recently scored a direct hit on a Metropolitan Railway archway under which 800 people were sheltering. Sixty-one were killed and 159 injured. Despite this disaster 500 had been allowed last night to shelter in a nearby archway. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Home Security, Miss Wilkinson, in reply, declared that there were comparatively few casualties, as the result of the policy of dispersal, in air raid shelters. The Ministry was seeking powers to turn peftple out from dangerous .shelters.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 March 1941, Page 5
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