FIVE KILLED IN RAIDS ON BRITAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 150, 26 June 1940, Page 8

FIVE KILLED IN RAIDS ON BRITAIN.

[ TWENTY INJURED

Enemy Launch Biggest Attack Of War. LONDON WAKNINGS SOUNDED. (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, June:-25. It is feared that the deathVroll from last night's air raids may .total five. Policq and A.R.P. unifcare searching the ruins of a housevin a south-west town for two people., who are missing. • Twenty were injured in the - laid, which was the ulggest since the outbreak of the war.' Many bombs were dropped over the south-west of England. Explosions were heard in a Midland's town, and in south-eastern and north-eastern areas. Flashes and heavy thuds, followed by the operation of a scarclilight,-iii the north-east of England, shortly before midnight, resulted in people rushing to the shelters before a warning was officially .given. .- Severai German 'planes passed. Explosions followed, indicating that bombs were being-dropped on the surrounding countryside. Enemy machines appeared from the north, north-cast and north-west', flying at a great height and disappeared inland in a ; south-easterly direction. The windows of nearly every. house ,in one district were broken. A bomb fell, in the front garden of a house", blowing out the entire front and severely damaging other houses. : ■.- •;•••• Incendiary.. Bombs. : Incendiary bombs started! -.fires in several places in this. town.. .Tlic outbreaks were soon under control. The matron of a hospital, situated .next to a house where two are missing, said, the patients behaved splendidly. The child patients were taken to,tlic shelter of a basement. Patients unable ' to.- walk were brought to the ground floor in a lift. Several hospital .windows ' were broken. The patients, were uninjured. •A bomb fell behind a Congregational manse, shattering - the windows, of the manse and also, the church windows. Two 'planes were seen over Wales, but no -onibs were dropped. V'• Londoners went to woik tliis.inorning with tlieir customary calm and,cheerfulness, after their, first alarm since last ? • -.'' : V • The air-raid warnings'- in- London were sounded after the bombs had been dropped- in the south-east .and southwest; British fighters, anti-aircraft guns and searchlights were very active, and in some cases : it was, several hours before the all-clear signal was given.