RAIDS ON BRITAIN
QUIET IN DAYTIME
LONDON RESCUE WORK
BOMBED MEN'S HOSTEL
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received January 17, 11 aJtn.)
RUGBY, January 16.
An Air Ministry and Home Security communique states that there has been very little air activity over Britain today. Bombs were dropped at two points in Kent, but there no damage or casualties resulted.
Pioneers with mobile cranes helped rescue squads in London today to save men from the wreckage of a large men's hostel which was demolished by a bomb during last night's raid. By early afternoon many of the trapped' men had been rescued. Some were badly injured. Two men were brought out after being'buried for more than eight hours. Police officers had to chip away stone work to. release one of them. Rescuers concentrated on points from which sounds were heard, and the cranes stopped at intervals to give them a chance of hearing any noise made by the imprisoned men.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 14, 17 January 1941, Page 7
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157RAIDS ON BRITAIN Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 14, 17 January 1941, Page 7
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