"Incendiary bombs started many üres, but only one major fre was caused aüd all are under control The work of, the fire services v again beyond praise, and their rangements for mutual assistance are working smoothly.
"Fuller reports of casualties are not yet available, but 18 persons are known to have been killed and 280 injured. To the localities attácked last night must now be added a town on the south bank of the Thames Estuary, where a number of houses was demolished and several persons killed.
"The total casualties on Monday night are now reported to be in the neighbourhood of 400 killed and 1,400 injured—the majority of fatalities occurring when an elementary school in the East End of London, which was affording temporary shelter to families whose homes had been de-^it and collapsei—
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