HARROWING SCENES IN WRECKED SCHOOL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 142, 15 June 1917, Page 5

HARROWING SCENES IN WRECKED SCHOOL.

SOLDERS AND BLUEJACKETS MOVED TO TEARS.

(Received 8.30 a.m.)', LONDON, June 14. Harrowing scenes occurred at the bombed East End school. When the bomb penetrated the roof it killed a girl on the top floor and several boys in the senior class on the next floor. It exploded in the infants' room on the ground floor, scattering the sixty-four infants. The. teachers were uninjured but covered with blood, and worked heroically. Soldiers and bluejackets wept while removing the maimed bodies, with exercise books and shattered slates clasped in the little hands. Portions of nine boye and girls were carried out and laid on the roadside. Others were terribly mutilated, hands and feet being blown off. Anguished mothers flocked to the school, and being debarred admission frantically scaled the walls. Further deaths in the raid bring the total to 103. Pathetic scenes were witnessed in the hospitals throughout the night. Many waited long hours for news of missing relatives. The newspapers comment on the fact that the raiders were not vigorously attacked before reaching London, and also ask why a warning was not given when the authorities knew of their arrival on the coast fifty minutes before reaching London, The same newspapers call for sternest reprisals.— (A. and K.Z. Cable.)