PALACE AGAIN ATTACKED BY NAZIS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 220, 16 September 1940, Page 7

PALACE AGAIN ATTACKED BY NAZIS.

FURTHER DAMAGE. Hun Shot To Pieces; Bomb In Queen's Rooms. (Reed. 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 15. Buckingham Palace vr&f again attacked with bombs during the noon raid. There were ho casualties. It is officially stated that the Queen's apartments were damaged by a bomb which failed to explode. Their Majesties were not present when the Palace was attacked. The raider which bombed the Palace was shot to pieces by Spitfire* a few aeeonds later. Representatives of the Press who were invited to Bucking-ham Palace yesterday saw the evidence of Friday morning a deliberate attack on Their Majesties and their home. The King and Queen, who were unhurt, were taking shelter under the Palace, with members of the staff. A German pilot who dived from the clouds through the balloon barrage, released six bombs from a height of 1000 ft., and again., disappeared in the clouds, failed by a miracle to bring murder and destruction to the Palace. ' Apart from a bomb which hit and completely wrecked the Royal Chapel, the damage resulting from this coldblooded assault was Jess than that which a time-bomb caused earlier in the week, l>ut three bombs which landed »n the inner quadrangle barely missed the Palace proper. If tlu • had landed a few feet either the Ight or the left, Buckingham Palace would be mostly in ruins to-day.

Craters in the Quadrangle. The explosion caused cratere in the quadrangle and a water main burst, throwing up a cascade of -water. Many of the windows in the south wing were shattered, and a wall was pitted with bomb splinters. Their Majesties' Eoyal apartments and shelters are situated on the opposite side of the Palace, in the north wing. Police and soldiers piled a mountain of sandbags around a delayed-action bomb which fell on Friday between Buckingham Palace gates and the Queen Victoria memorial. It exploded at 3.40 a.m. on Saturday and wrecked a massive stone pillar and a section of the Palace railings, The Queen .Victoria memorial was not damaged. CANADIAN TRAINING. Enables Airmen To Gain More Instruction In Week.. GREAT OUTPUT EXPECTED. (Reed. 9.30 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept, 15, "The Times" gays, after noting that airmen, trained in Canada, are now arriving in England: "When the Empire air training scheme was first launched nine months ago one of the main advantages foreseen, was that it would enable airmen to be'trained in a climate giving them many more hours in a week for flying instruction than can be expected in this 'country. Now that the air of Britain is in the front line of battle, so that flying instruction in it has become difficult and precarious, this advantage is even more valuable. "The training scheme itself is part of a larger programme which provides for the great expansion of the air , forces of the Dominions. It content plates a flow of trained crews into the Empire air forces at a rate, not of thousands but of tens of thousands a year." ' fn Australia and New Zealand are Such o* the cable news pn this oaie a» Is so