THE SCHOOL TRAGEDY
68 KILLED OR BURIED BALLOON BARRAGE UNREADINESS ALLOWED RAIDERS THROUGH (Rec. 11 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 21. Forty-eight children and teachers are known to have been killed in the London school which was wrecked by a bomb in yesterday's daylight raid on the capital. Fifty 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 those 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. Some of the balloons were not raised in time, and therefore German fighter-bombers were able to slip through and make lowlevel attacks. A preliminary inquiry has been held, adds the ' Express,' and questions will be asked in the House of Commons.
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Evening Star, Issue 24409, 22 January 1943, Page 3
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