DEAD & MISSING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 January 1943, Page 4

DEAD & MISSING

IN BOMBED LONDON SCHOOL TOTAL PLACED AT 68. ANOTHER FIFTY VICTIMS IN HOSPITAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, January 21. Forty-eight children and teachers are known to have been killed ( in the London school which was wrecked by a bomb in yesterday’s daylight raid on the capital. Fifty patients from the school have been detained in hospital, and 20 children, whose ages range from seven to fourteen, are missing. Five out of eight teachers in the junior section were killed. The search for those missing continues, but there is no hope any will be found alive. An attempt at tunnelling, during the night, had to be abandoned, because of escaping gas. Part of Londonos balloon barrage was unprepared for yesterday’s raid, the “Daily Express” says. Some balloons were not raised in time and therefore the German fighter-bombers were able to slip through and make low-level attacks. A preliminary inquiry has been held, adds the “Express” and questions will be asked in the House of Commons.