THE LATEST

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 49, 7 December 1940, Page 6

THE LATEST

GREAT DAMAGE.

£30,000 WORTH OF WINDOWS.

NAZI BOMBING ON BRITAIN.

(United Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.65 p.m.) LONDON, December 6.

. A south coast town, claimed by the Germans to be Portsmouth, was heavily bombed’ last night. Considerable damage -was done, but the casualties are not yet known.

When a bomb hit a cinema about 50 people were trapped, but there was no panic. Numbers are still buried under the debris. In a working-class district a 13-year-old girl is still partially buried after 12 hours. She was given morphia and warm drinks. Nurses acted as firemen when incendiaries set fire to a hospital. They beat out the flames with brooms until the firemen arrived. Then, when the auxiliary pump went out of action, they formed a bucket chain. All the nurses lost their personal belongings and money. .

Three bombs recently fell in the grounds at Windsor Castle. Another damaged the Royal Lodge at Windsor Great Park. Bombs which fell on the Kentish village of Kilndown smashed stained glass windows in the church valued at £30,000. They were purchased at Munich last century. Recently a bomb fell on the lawn of Holyrood House, disinterring the remains of Scottish Kings and Queens buried there and breaking the Palace windows. High explosives and incendiaries hit the Greenwich Observatory, damaging parts erected by Christopher Wren in 1675. Other bombs damaged the ring of the famous Blackfriars boxing stadium.

The Duke of Gloucester was inspecting military units recently when two German bombers flew over as he was leaving his car. Several bombs were dropped, but nobody was hurt.