Late News CHILDREN HELP TO SNUFF BOMBS
Popular British Pastime FEW OF INCENDIARIES DO DAMAGE tßy Telegraph. —Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received February 7. 2.10 a.m.) LONDON, February GBritish children are fast becoming incendiary bomb conscious. Immediately incendiaries are dropped they rush out into tile streets to help extinguish them. A street in a town on the Thames Estuary last night, was littered with incendiaries ami children, some of them in their dressing-gowns, rushed out to help with bags of sand. When a low-flying raider bombed a town on I he east coast during the night one bomb penetrated the roof of a cinema and exploded in the hall. Four members of the staff who were nearby escaped with a shaking. A warden rescued six people from an underground shelter when a bomb made a direct hit on the entrance.
Seventy incendiaries fell in a Home Counties district and all were extinguished except one, which set fire to a house.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 114, 7 February 1941, Page 8
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