BRIGADESMEN’S HEROIC ACT
(United' Press Association-Copyright > (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, November 7. Despite the early fierce opening, the raid on London last night was less prolonged than that of the previous night, v The Luftwaffe, were overhead for hours on end, but instead of scattering bombs in pairs, similarly as in other heavy dhslaughts, they appeared to unload whole plane-loads at one time. A stick of seven high-explosives, almost shaving the roof of an historic edifice, started a mountainous fire. Firemen went into action before the debris had ceased falling. A block of business premises was reduced to. rubble. Salvoes here and there wrecked rows of suburban dwellings. Nuns, French soldiers, roof spotters and several members of the auxiliary fire service were among the night’s the lastnamed when a fire station was directly hit.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 24, 8 November 1940, Page 5
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