CROWDED SHELTERS
LONDON CRITICISM DISPERSAL POLICY (Reed. March 1, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 27. Complaining that despite warnings many people were still using big shelters, Captain A. S. C-unningham-Reid said in the House of Commons that a heavy bomb recently hit directly a metropolitan railway archway under which 800 were sheltering. Sixty-one were killed and 159 injured, Despite this disaster 500 people were allowed last night to shelter in a nearby archway. Miss Ellen Wilkinson, replying, declared that there had been comparatively few casualties as a result of the policy of dispersal in air-raid shelters. The Ministry was seeking powers to turn out people from dangerous shelters.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20493, 1 March 1941, Page 5
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107CROWDED SHELTERS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20493, 1 March 1941, Page 5
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