SHELLING LONDON

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 293, 18 September 1940, Page 5

SHELLING LONDON

LONG-RANGE GUNS IN ACTION.

“RANGE-FINDING” PRACTICE. WEAPONS LIKE TELESCOPES. United Press Association. —Copyrights (■Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) BERLIN, September 17. Long-range guns are shelling London for range - finding. The calibre of the guns is secret, but they resemble a telescope, each section being thinner than its predecessor.

THREAT OF DAILY ATTACK. A REPORT FROM BERLIfL

(Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, September 17. , I't is semi-officially reported from Berlin that Germany’s long-range guns shelled London, and will likewise do more every day.

GALE IN STRAITS OF DOVER. VISIBILITY VERY POOR. LONDON, September IJ. Britain’s greatest ally against invasion, the weather’, is now playing its part. • / A south-westerly gale \tas howling in the Straits of Dover last night. Dark rain clouds reduced visibility to a few hundred yards.

PROTECTION FROM BOMBING. NEED FOR DEEP SHELTERS. • " ‘ e ... LONDON, September 17. _ The ‘‘Daily Mail” asks in, an editorial, whether the 'Government is doing all it can for civilians, whether proper shelters ‘are provided, and whether complete arrangements are. made to house those rendered homeless.

The outcome of the battle largely depends on the! people’s courage and endurance, it says and the Minister for Home gficiirity (Sir John . Anderson) should immediately Older the com s traction of deep bomb-proof shelte/rs in every available open space. The lessons of the war elsewhere halve not: been learnt, and, the outstanding fact is that the “dispersal” policy on which Sir John. Anderson has based his plans, has failed, and public money is being wasted more and.more on surface shelters, revealing lack cf foresight because surface shelters will not withstand'continuous air attack.