NAZI ONSLAUGHT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1943, Page 5

NAZI ONSLAUGHT

INNOCENT VICTIMS

48 KILLED IN LONDON

SCHOOL

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) (Rec. noon.) LONDON, Jan. 21. Forty-eight children and teachers are known to have been killed in a London school which was wrecked by a bomb in yesterday's daylight raid on the capital. Fifty persons from the school have been detained in hospital and 20 children whose ages range from seven to 14 are missing. Five out of eight teachers in the junior section were killed. The search for the missing continues, but there is no hope that any will be found alive. An attempt at tunnelling during the night had to be abandoned because of escaping gas. Part of London's balloon barrage was unprepared for yesterday's raid. The "Daily Express" says that some bal- j loons were not raised in time and therefore the German fighter-bombers were able to slip through and make low-level attacks. A preliminary inquiry has been held, adds the "Daily Express." Sir W. H. Davison, in the House of Commons, asked the Minister of Home Security, Mr. Herbert Morrison, if he was aware that many people were unable to get into shelters during yesterI day's air raid on London because they were locked. He also asked the Minister if he would give instructions that shelters must always be available, especially for protection from splinters from our own shells. . Mr. Morrison said that the maintenance of shelters was a matter for the Minister of Health, who was in a great dilemma because of the scandalous misuse and damage of shelters by citizens. , ■ , . * v Wardens were instructed to open the shelters when a warning sounded, but often there was little time between the sirens and the bombs.