AUSTRALIA HOUSE DAMAGED
MANY NARROW ESGAPES
(Rec. 10.5 a.m.) LONDON, July 12. It can now be revealed that Australia House, the (Royal Free Hospital in Gray's Inn road, London, and Warner Brothers' studio, at Twickenham, were damaged in recent flying bomb attacks. Australia House was not actually hit, but was badly damaged by blast from a bomb which fell very close to the building. Almost every window, and doors and woodwork inside many of the rooms and corridors were shattered and splintered. Of the several hundred persons inside the building, many of whom had remarkable escapes from flying glass and woodwork, only a handful suffered minor injuries. , When blast from a flying bomb which fell in Southern England killed a National Fire Service despatch rider, his motor cycle was blown through the window of a nearby house and struck the occupier, who was seriously injured.
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Evening Star, Issue 25226, 13 July 1944, Page 5
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