DEATH-ROLL FOR THE LONDON RAID NOW 104.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16567, 16 June 1917, Page 7

DEATH-ROLL FOR THE LONDON RAID NOW 104.

LARGE NUMBER OP CHILDREN IN CASUALTY LIST. HARROWING SCENES AT THE BOMBED SCHOOL. Renter. (Received 1 a.m.) LONDON, June 15. In the House of Commons Sir George Cave, Secretary of State for Home Affairs, stated that the casualties caused by the German aeroplane raid were 104 killed, 154 seriously injured, and 269 slightly injured. The casualties include 120 children. Everyone killed or wounded in the raid was a civilian. Not an iota of damage had been done to military or naval property. It was feared no raider was brought down. LONDON. June 14. Harrowing scenes occurred at the East End school which was struck by a bomb. When the bomb penetrated the roof it killed a girl on the top floor and several boys in the senior class on the next floor. It exploded in the infants' room on the ground floor, scattering the 64 infants. . The teachers were uninjured but were covered with blood- They worked heroically. Soldiers and bluejackets wept while removing the maimed bodies, with exercise books and shattered slates clasped in the little hands. Portions of nine boys and girls were carried out and laid on the roadside. Others were terribly mutilated, hands and feet being blown off. Anguished mothers flocked to the school, and being debarred admission frantically scaled the walls. Pathetic scenes were witnessed in the hospitals throughout the night. Many persons waited long hours for news of missing relatives.