The Archive · 1940

300 Children Escape Death

London, Aug. 8.

Three hundred children and 150 sleeping adults narrowly escaped from death and injuries last night as German air raiders renewed intensive attacks on Britain which continued early this morning after a lull of several days during which the Royal Air Force showed no laxity, blasting German-held points on the Continent.

Three hundred children escaped death and injuries when a German raider dropped two bombs near a sanatorium in northeast England. All the windows in the sanatorium were shattered and the doors were blown in.

Ore bomb fell just behind the nurses' home, where 150 adults were aslop. Houses were damaged in the explosion, but there were no casualties.

'The 300 children, from poor homes in the industrial' areas, remained Quietly in their beds throughout the raid.—United Press.

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