BOMBS ON LONDON.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 5, 17 October 1940, Page 5

BOMBS ON LONDON.

HIGH EXPLOSIVE AND INCENDIARY “RAIDERS’ FACES RADIANT.” GLOATING BY GERMAN AGENCY. BUT THE CITY CARRIES ON. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.0 a.in.) LONDON, October 16. The German statement with regard to the number of planes raiding London last night was probably an exaggeration, but hundreds of tons of high explosive and incendiary bombs hit the capital. It was a horrific night for those who still believing that the discomforts of the underground are the greater of two terrors, stayed above the surface. The raiders made whole districts their targets; consequently the majority of the bombs achieved

little direct military importance. “The faces of the crews were radiant, as everyone had a grand experience,” says the Berlin news agency describing the return of Luftwaffe raiders from London. “The Luftwaffe gives no quarter,” says the agency, citing the examples of annihilated Warsaw, „destroyed Rotterdam and the devastation of Dunkirk, and added: “It is often asked how long will it he before London meets the same fate? The impression of fire in London last night was indescribable. The supply systems will be paralysed for a long time to come.”

That is what Berlin thinks. Londoners went to work this morning much the same as usual. The majority still had jobs to go to and tackled -them with the same unshaken resolve. London is still London.