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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1941, Page 6

VICTIMS FOUND UNDER RUINS SEARCH BEING CONTINUED. CASUALTIES IN EAST COAST TOWN. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, April 18. Hundreds of rescuers worked throughout the night in an attempt to reach those trapped under four-storey tenements in a London district. Highexplosive bombs had literally scooped out houses in which were families. mostly living in single rooms. Eleven persons were found, of whom two men and two women were alive. The search continues among the ruins of a large block of workers' flats in London shattered by a bomb on the night of April 16. The bomb fell in a courtyard between the flats and a surface shelter, wrecking both. A number of killed and injured people were taken from the wreckage within a few hours. Workers tunnelling in the debris thus far have not located others. Three to four hundred people lived in the flats, but it is believed that many had previously gone to another shelter, after a heavy bomb had directly hit a nearby hospital. Bombs dropped this morning wrecked several workers' houses in a East Coast town. Several persons were killed or injured. A bomb directly hit a house in which were a mother, two sons and a daughter. A twelve-year-old son was dug out after three hours, slightly injured. The remainder of the family were killed.