A BRAVE BOY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23850, 28 December 1940, Page 10

A BRAVE BOY

BOMBING INCIDENT THREE WOMEN SAVED CRAWL IN WRECKED BUILDING [from our own correspondent] LONDON, Dec. 1. A boy aged 16 worked alone inside a huge pile of debris for three hours rescuing people who bad been trapped when a bomb struck a block of houses in London. Some people were killed and others injured. The boy. Stanley Pipe, volunteered to be lowered down a small bole cleared at the top of the debris when the cries of the trapped people were heard. A post warden in charge of the operations said: "Cries were heard corning from beneath the ruins of one of the houses. We worked from the top of the debris and made a small hole through which only a small person could pass. A young lad with n helmet on was standing by. and I asked him. 'Are you going to give me a- hand,' and be replied. 'O.K. "He was lowered through the hole by a rope, and with only the light ot a torch shone from above reached one woman, who was brought up through the hole. Working his way through the debris, he got into the front ot the building, and found two sisters, the Misses Ranwell, pinned under timber beams. "The boy managed to shift the beams, hut his way back was cut oil owing to shifting masonry, and lie had to drag the women nearer to the front. "A squadron leader of the demolition squad got down, and. a I though he could not get through to the boy, instructed him how to pin up pieces <>l timber until an aperture was made large enough for Stanley and the two women to be dragged through. Stanley was underneath tin 1 debris irom 10 p.m. until one in the morning."