LONDON'S DAMAGE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 273, 18 November 1941, Page 5

LONDON'S DAMAGE

ARCHITECTURAL LOSS, NAZI BOMBING RESULTS "It is well to remember that it is no new thing for London to be destroyed," said Professor C. R. Knight, when speaking at the Auckland Rotary Club luncheon on London's architectural casualties. After the great fire of London Sir Christopher Wren and other architects of the day rebuilt the city, and, he predicted, great men would restore London to its former beauty. A new and better London would be

built on the present site and buildings which could not be repaired would be replaced by better ones.

1 'To-day our London buildings and |many others are in the front line, and we are proud to think that they : have protected life," said Professor Knight. "It is not all sadness and loss; we are proud to put something lin to the 'kitty.' Hitler asked for total warfare and he is getting it."

| The speaker went on to say that 1 since early in the year information had been coming through in architectural magazines as to the damage caused to London by German bombing.

After referring to the damage to such architectural beauty as that included in St. Paul's, Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace, Professor Knight read a casualty list of churches, many of which were designed by Sir Christopher Wren. Among these were about six totally destroyed, while over a dozen were damaged, some seriously.