BOMBS ON LORD'S.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 283, 28 November 1940, Page 5

BOMBS ON LORD'S.

DAMAGE WAS SLIGHT.

FAMOUS CRICKET GROUND* 1

(0.C.) GISBOKN'E, this day. The damage caused by incendiary bombs dropped on the famous lord'* Cricket Ground was slight, according to a cricketer friend in a letter to Mr. W. Barrington Miller, of Gisborna. "The tempo of war has speeded up very much since I last wrote," be says. "The first big raid at the beginning of the month was on Saturday afternoon, and it was one of the most extraordinary sights possible to see in this mad world. I was sitting in the pavilion of Lord's about 5 p.m., when a very larg» formation of Huns came in from the west, flying east. In a few momenta the whole of the sky, from the big chimney opposite the Tavern, was alive with bursting stirapnel. A huge fire wa» started on the south side of the river, and smoke drifted down the horizon. Fighting was terrific, and occasionally we could see planes, like great dragon |flies, twisting and turning in all directions. Our men were really wonderful, jand they have got the Huns properly I tied up. After a time we saw a pilot j come down in a parachute, and we I watched him for nearly 40 minutes !from the pavilion. Then suddenly to the ileft of the Marylebone Church, we saw a plane crash out of the sky. These incidents were a long way off, but it was an incredible experience.

"The Huns a few days later dropped seven incendiary bombs on Lord's, two just where we had been standing, two on the playing pitch, and one on top of the pavilion, which burned its way through into the main long room, bat actually did very little damage. Othem fell just by the professionals' entrance. My sisters were bombed out of their house. A bomb fell in the garden and blew a greenhouse and the back wall of the house to bits, but they and their maid were rescued unhurt."