NEW ZEALANDER'S STORY OF RAID.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 91, 18 April 1941, Page 7

NEW ZEALANDER'S STORY OF RAID.

TROOPS , CLUB HIT. Some Believed Buried In The Wreckage. I'nllMl Press Association.-—Copyright. (Heed. -1 p.m.) LO.VDOX. April 17. Bombs directly hit a club in which overseas troops were sleeping. It is believed sonic were buried in the wreckage. A Now Zealander said:— '•-My friends sleeping in the bed beside me were (here one moment and gone the next, f found them in the wreckage." A number who were reading in the lounge were severely injured. Wiinlen-; f.nnid ,i man klid his wife Iyiii;? injured in the middle of n street, -till wrapped in the bedclothes after being blown through a wall. Kij;ht ho-pitals were rluina-red, and several churches were destroyed. Flaidly ii r;liop window i< loft in the majority of nioal of the famous shopping centres. London has said '"jjoodli.vr"' i.i shop-window displays for the diirtitioii. Tons of Broken Glass. 'II flWi of the lilii.-t i< almost lii'vuiiil imagination, hundreds of trucks hiivi' been nioliiliscd to dear the streets lit ton* ot broken nlat-s Iviii" over a luise

line rOi'tion nf a t'.imwii- thoroughfare was denioli-liod. ami another West End -tri'ct litirt four craters.

The Merlin ikm\> agency state that several Imndrcil bombers participated in ! lie ln>iivi(—t air attack yet made on I.oihloii. Ilundicds of hi"h explosive l)oiuli> and thousands of incendiaries were drop|K'd on military rihjpctives in

ilio capital. Tilbury docks and Chatham were also lmdly liit. A raid was al-o made on d'reat Yarmouth.