CHURCHES HIT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 14 September 1940, Page 9

CHURCHES HIT.

HOUSE OF LORDS TOO.

Little Girl Rescued After Entombed Four Days.

Cnitml Pren Awodatloiu—Copyright. (Reed. 1 pjn.) LONDON", Sept. 13. From midnight to noon London tras in a state of alarm for nine hours. The first warning was gonnded less

than two hours alter the all clear was sounded for the night's raid. The second alarm lasted from 9.49 »m till 1.50 p.m. Sirens were sounded for the third time at 3.55 p.m.

The all clear for the third alarm «a sounded at 4.15 pjc. A solitary 'plane, diving from the clouds, was responsible for the third warning. Pedestrian* threw themselves at full length on roadways and pavements. The 'plana dropped bombs, setting fire to a building.

A raider dropped several incendiary bombs over the London district during the eecond warning, but these wene promptly extinguishnd.

Heavy explosions were licard is central London, then a deafening gunfire barrage broke out- The streets were quickly deserted as shrapnel pattered on the road wave and rooftops.

Among the notable buildings damaged by Xaxi bombs is tiie House of I<orde, which was struck by an incendiary bomb. The damage was slight, and the bomb was quickly extinguished.

The siren was bounded for the fourth time at 9.10 p.m.

Several plaocs affected in the past few days' raids can now lie disclosed. The buildings damaced include Soroersci House, the churches of Our Lady of Victories in Kensington, and the "churche*of St. Magnus the Martyr, St, SwiihinV in Cannon Street. St. Man,- at the HiJ.. St. Dui*sfcaJi"s in ihe Essi, St. Marj. Woolnoth. St. Of meat's at Easlcbea] St. AugustineV in Walling Street, ami St. Giles-. Cripplegatc.

Rotten Tiow and Berkeley Square weic also alftvcUsi.

About five borntis fell in the rjrinitr «-f St. Paul's on Sept- 12. atid cue. belicv-.1 "0 Lave been n .SOO-pounder. in a *01113 west suburb, which is beginning to i< seinblc the East End. Hardly a street io without a crater 01 crater*. Windows are rare for a considerable length alum--districts on the main road. However, apart from a number of death.- when a shelter was directly hit, the casualties were monly confined to minor injaritrastaiacd by behig hurled to the ground with or without the assistance of a bom l , blast.

A 14-year-old girl, Mildred Catt ill' was rescued alive this afternoon fro:, the ruins of a demolished houf.e :n ♦outhnest suburb, ia which she v a buried on September 9 aad was belike, dead. A passerby heard her cum.