HOSPITALS HIT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23758, 11 September 1940, Page 9

HOSPITALS HIT

FIVE WOMEN MISSING TWO MUSEUMS SUFFER DAMAGE LONDON, Sept. u Five young women are missing following the- bombing of a hospital in central London 011 Sunday night. Other people were injured. The secretary stated that two of the top storeys, mainly used as nurses' quarters, were ruined. The windows of one ward were blown in. The conduct of patients and nurses was splendid. Raiders also dropped bombs on a hospital which was unoccupied, being reserved for air raid casualties. The bombs reduced a three-storey wing to rubble and damaged another wing. Another institution had all the windows blown in, but there was no panic among the 1400 inmates, whose ages ranged from 60 to 100. Fifteen people were injured. A bomb which struck a museum caused a fire which burned off the roof of the east wing. Another bomb demolished a house immediately opposite, and a third damaged another house near by. Another museum in the London area was also damaged. London's volunteer firemen were praised by Mr. E. A. Montague in a broadcast last night. In a tour of London yesterday he said he saw groups of volunteer firemen still playing hoses on smouldering debris following the previous night's raid, lhey Avere sweating, dirty and unshaven. They had kept to their posts even while the raid was in progress and attempts had been made by the enemy to machine : gun them. Y.W.C.A. gir s car ried cups of tea to them. ,