Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-10

ring aeroplanes were British and ston,.. 4
the street to admire their graceful fIsS,
Bang Bang! Bang The de,or.,,-
were terrific. Children screamed WIFI tOn, t.ioa,
as the bombs fell. The crowds had no ,,sa sH
to get to cover. And the enemy ats.aaat uat
hung over our heads, dealing dss,h sn M
with terrible hand. Scenes OF alan.h,uWA w
followed which would willingly forSs,~~
if could.
URGES REPRIsALs
Whatever course is taken" said A,
Lord Mayor of London in a recent sn..us w
1--WE must stop this brutal and wholsss.
murder of women and children. I donT 80
what measures are adopted so long as ,S...
outrages are stopped. But we must nav.
Justice for our women and children"
II only the German people knew. |, o,,.
the British people carried into the Gern,s
domestic hearth the true brutality a.
horror of high explosives, of bombs dropn.s
on children who were flung about IN
bloody rags, then surely the enormjtv !,
the crimes committed by Germany wouls
make her pause in her terrible course n
frightfulness.
Several Of my own personal friends hAv.
suffered greatly in these recent air raIA,
A woman friend Of mine lost her husbana
and two sons, and yesterday her younr
daughter a beautiful girl of eighteen, an
in hospital from after effects. The wom,n
herself was rather badly wounded hui /.
making headway toward recovery now. 81,
has not the least desire to live.
THE TRAIL OF MURDER
In the poorest quarter Of London ther.
was q verltable trail of murder I ,thInk
the crownng infamy was the killing and
manning of many little children in an in.
fants' school.
In the roof of the school there il a
hole about two feet across, as clean a.
though made with a knife The bomb
dropped from the German airpane went
through two floors, killing and woundlns
several children on each floor, but II was
on the ground floor that II exploded ana
worked its most terrible havoc. Abou,
forty little tots between the ages Of five
and seven were at work here, and yir,
tually none escaped.
All that was left of the classroom was
a mass of blood-spattered debris-desk,
reduced to matchwood, with here a book
and there slate showing
In the front part of the room, whsr.
the bomb exploded, was a hole three feet
deep. Everything was smashed to atoms
Most of the little children were terribly
| mutilated. The teacher young woman
at once gathered together the few who
| could walk, and marched them out Of the
room over the debris of smashed furntur,
and the remains of their little sehso.
| fellows
The body of a pretty little fair-harsd
| girl was found on the first floor beside
| piano. The overturned plano stool was b.
| side her. She had been having a must
lesson and was killed instantaneously.
In the hand of another little seven-year
old was found an exercise book, In whIcA
she had done her last sum. 1t was a smpl
little thing. In addition and had been mark
ed Correct" The anguish of her mothei
| as she held the child in her arms. stll
grasping her exercise book, was dreadtu
| to witness.
Bombs fell close beside another school
| 'I never saw such a sight" said an Aus
tralian soldier home from the front, vha
had gone to the school to bring home thrs,
| nieces There were the teachers eooHy
standing in frOl. of their classes, while d,
youngsters sac1 Justify. One bomb sg
with deafenins crash close by, and tAgs
were signs of panic among the smaller chi
dren, when the headmaster, pushing me int
the classroom, said: We're all right, chll
| dren See, here's a soldier Who's afraidi
Then he shouted, Are we downheartedg
The reply came Immediately, in thunder
ing MOI"