KING AND QUEEN IN RAID

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 206, 30 August 1940, Page 7

KING AND QUEEN IN RAID

Drive In London As Sirens Shriek TRAIN TRIP NORTH Set Splendid Example Of Imperturbability

(United Press Association.—Copyright.— Rec. 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 29. Londoners went cheerfully to work this morning after the most severe and most prolonged dose of bombing the capital has yet received. The King and Queen set an example of imperturbability on Tuesday night when they refused to allow an air raid warning to interfere with their all-night journey to the Northern Command. Sirens were sounding as they drove from the Palace, but the Royal car continued to the station at a snail's pace. A British official wireless message says Their Majesties made a two-hour tour of one of Britain's biggest shipyards in north-west England, where they saw warships on the stocks and others in the basin almost ready to put to sea. Thousands of shipyard workers cheered them on the tour of the yards, which Their Majesties made on foot.

They spent last night in a railway train at a quiet siding somewhere in Lancashire, and although there were many attacks over the country, Their Majesties were not disturbed.

Several London areas received their first experience of bombs, says a cable message, but the Germans' haphazard methods minimised the material damage, and the use of shelters by the public kept the casualties low.

Eighteen hundred members of the civil defence were on duty in one district, where over 60 incendiary bombs fell. Stirrup pumps were so effective that there was no fire and no casualties in this area. One incendiary bomb almost burnt out a well-known emporium in one district before the fire was controlled.

High explosives about a mile away demolished several working class houses. One bomb landed on the top of a shelter and the four occupants, all members of one family, were killed. Several houses were demolished, and a church was extensively damaged.

A mansion, garage and sports pavilion were gutted by fire as the result of attacks on a north-west coastal town early this morning. Incendiary bombs and many high explosives were dropped.

The Midlands also received prolonged attention from the raiders, who were over one town for several hours. Incendiary and high explosive borrifrs fell over a wide area and many nouses were wrecked, and gas and electricity services affected.

Bombs also fell on a small Midland town and two people were killed and several injured when a raider dived over a Midland town and dropped five bombs on the residential quarter. A German 'plane is believed to have been brought down in the south-eastern area after being caught in a maze of searchlight beams and anti-aircraft fire.

South Wales had the heaviest and most prolonged raid so far.

During the London raids many incendiary bombs fell on the grounds of an institution, damaging the hospital and other buildings by fire. i

It is officially stated that fighting show that 28 enemy "p British lost. Seven British pi) reported killed' or musing.

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