BABIES' RAID JOY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2618, 13 November 1915, Page 9

BABIES' RAID JOY

ZEPPELIN NIGHT IN A CHILD HOSPITAL. At one of the hospitals in the "Eastern counties and London district" (says the "Daily Mail") tho ready resource of a nurse discovered a way of dealing with Zoppelin raids which would lossen the glee of the baby-killers if it were known in Berlin. With tho first deafening, crash all the littlo frightened out of their 6leep, cried for "Sister." "We'll have a Guv Fawkes night," the nurse declared comfortingly, and all who were well enough and old enough to understand oheered. Chocolates in abundance—the chocolates that ordinarily are given out one at a time 'as a reward for taking nasty medicine—and a few crackers left over from last Christmas, provided a touch-pf. festivity,., and with tlio crash'of'each.'.'bomb''or Well the chorus of "The Fifth of November" rose >hioW and higher.'- ~. : Only a bonfire was needed to make things perfect, some of the older ohildren complaincd, .but this want ws» sup-plied'-when the-flamps from, some'burning buildings in fiy>nt of tho hospital lit up the-, ward like daylight. "Altogether," far' from •causing panic, one small , section of the community at any rate found the Zeppelin raid enioynble. To'another hospital, however, the dead bodies of five l children were taken. The eldest was 15; others were 10, 7, and 5, and the youngest a baby.