DOVER SCHOOL CHILDREN
EVACUATION URGED WARNING TO PARENTS RUGBY. Oct. 13. While children were registering for attendance at six Dover schools, which reopened to-day for the first time since Dunkirk, Alderman Powell, chairman of the Dover Education Committee, warned parents that Dover was no place for children. “If a shell from the German Channel guns falls on one of our schools and kills or injures the children only the parents themselves will be to blame,’’ he said. “We get shells without stint, and the children are living in caves, getting pale and miserable. The Ministry of Home Security should put its foot down and get the children away.” Heavy gunfire from British coastal batteries shook the town as the committee broke up. The blast from previous German shelling smashed all the windows of one school. A German communique states that long-range guns yesterday shelled the Dover radio station with results which could be observed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24738, 15 October 1941, Page 6
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