BOMBING OF LONDON.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 44, 2 December 1940, Page 5

BOMBING OF LONDON.

HEAVIEST FOR SOME TIME.

SEVEN DEATHS REPORTED

LONDON, December 1

German bombers did considerable damage in one town on the south coast on Saturday night. Fires were started and shops, houses and other buildings were shattered. It is feared that there were a number of killed and injured. Elsewhere raids were on a small scale. Three points in the London area suffered from attacks and there was a small number of deaths.

The comparative quiet of London’s nights was broken by the heaviest raid for some time. A heavy, bomb in the London area killed seven persons and. injured several others. Most of the casualties occurred in two public bouses. Two ambulance men were killed and three wardens were seriously injpred. The audience in a London cinema, when an incendiary bomb blazed up, remained calm while the staff dealt with the bomb. A lone raider bombed an eastern town, when one person was killed and three were seriously injured. Three enemy aircraft were destroyed on 'Saturday and the Royal Air Force lost two fighters, the pilots of which are safe, states an Air Ministry communique.

Described by the Nazis, as a heavy “reprisal’' attack, Friday night’s raids on Britain are the subject of a further Ministry of Home Security communique, which states: “Further details are now available of the raids on London last night, and on the Merseyside on the previous night. These confirm that the casualties on, the Merseyside as a whole were not heavy, but a number of persons was killed aiid injured in One building which received a direct hit. The casualties in London last night were somewhat heavier than was at first thought.” . .