The Archive · 1939

Children's Hospital Bombed

Warsaw, Sept. 4. janes fast Friday bombed Another communique said German troops crossed the Vistula cast of Pless in Silesia and captured Polish {fortiied positions south of Nikolai. Seven Polish planes and one Polish baleen had been shot down over Warsaw yesterday. No German planes. were lost, the communique fold-—United Press, of Warsaw, a Havas correspondent announced after a visit to the scene of bombing today. The correspon dent stated that one bomb fell about two metres from the building, which "was very badly damaged. Twelve children were buried under the debris, and the charred bodies of only ten have been recovered 50 far, About twenty five children and five nurses were injured,

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