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floors with debris. In the main walls
were pittings a foot and more in diameter
and several inches in depths, while at
several places on the steps leading up to
the doorway were round holes and even
perforations as if made by shrapnel bullets.
On one side of the school 50 yards or so
from the site of the explosion the windows
of the Infirmary were smashed, while
opposite, those of a row of private houses,
had likeways suffered. From my post
I could see evidence of destruction in
Lauriston ?Place. Here next door to Chalmers
Hospital a high explosive bomb passed
clean through the house of a doctor without
harming any of the inmates, though, as
elsewhere, doing great damage to glass etc
in the houses all round. From many
sightseers in the afternoon I learned stories
of the raid. In Leith a Bonded Store
had been set alight by the first bomb
dropped, and profiting from the glare of
the conflagration, some 5 or 6 others were
launched with terrifying effect to the poor
people in the old houses by the shore.
One bomb fell by the German Church

at the end of Bellevue Cres., one behind Gayfield
Square, four in the King's Park, one doing much
damage in a slummy neighbourhood by St.
Leonards where it partially destroyed the
front of a tenement, but, I believe, hurt none
of the large number of people inside; At
the Cross-causeway another fell, and, I believe,
did a lot of damage. Then in Marchmont
Road adjacent to a Board school another
exploded, passing through a house but
killing no one. It is said to have been an
asphyxiating bomb, and though no one was
asphyxiated it is said those in the house
are now (several days after) suffering from a
Skin irritation One bomb burst just in
front of the 'White Hart' Inn on the North
Side of the Grassmarket, and smashed
every window within a large radius. The Masonry
of the old house was not shaken, but the whole
front was scored in radiating lines upwards
where stones and fragments of metal had been
hurtled. The Castle was missed, but a bomb
just fell beyond the barrack buildings on
the west front onto the face of the rock. and ruined the windows
of Castle Terrace. An incendiary Missile
burned itself out harmlessly on the roadway
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