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OFFICER KILLED RESCUERS UNDER DESRIS LONDON, Sept. 19 Major-General and Mrs C. 3. B Hay were killed when a bomb last night crashed through the roof of a West End hotel and carried wreckage down several floors. The remainder of the 200 guests and the staff were not hurt. The rescuers continued into the night digging in the debris for buried people. As a result of the damage when a bomb-laden raider crashed last night, those trapped under a bombed school which was the headquarters of the local A.F.S. and ambulance services, include nurses, fire-girls and stretcherbearers. An alert warning was given by air raid sirens in London on Thursday night. The 13th consecutive visit to the capital by the Germans during the hours of darkness was greeted with the customary calm. Most households in the suburbs having made all the preparations, were roady for as comfortable a night as was possible, in anticipation that the Germans would again demonstrate their own peculiarly brutal brand of warfare in the senseless and indiscriminate bomb-droppmg on the homes of innocent citizens. Heavy anti-atr-,rait fire was immediately hoard in the Central London area, but it is stated that lone Gorman bombers were driven away. A few bombs were dropped in suburban districts in the early stage of the raid.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21223, 20 September 1940, Page 4
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219STOP PRESS NEWS Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21223, 20 September 1940, Page 4
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