ROBOT BOMBS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 180, 1 August 1944, Page 6

ROBOT BOMBS

Germans Send "Salvoes" To Saturate Defences MORE CASUAL/TIBS REPORTED Rec. 2.30 p.m. LONDON. July 31. At least eight persons were killed and ten seriously injured when a Sying bomb fell on a residential area in southern England last night. Italian prisoners from a war prisoners camp nearby helped fire guards and civilians in rescue work.

Other rescue workers were still digging to-day for victims of a flying bomb which fell in a thoroughfare last evening. Some dead and a number of injured were reported, but it is feared the death roll will be heavy. The Germans launched a number of "salvo" flying bomb attacks early to-daj' against targets in London and southern England. Observers on the coast report that flying bombs were launched simultaneously from different ramps behind the French coast with the intention of saturating the British defences. Antiaircraft batteries broke the full force of the attacks as the missiles streaked over the coast in flying wedges. Fighters destroyed others. An inland anti-aircraft detachment brought down one flying bomb which was headed for London. The bomb crashed and demolished a village church. FLYING BOMB VICTIMS TSJZ. COMMANDER AND WIFE N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent Rec. 2.30 p.m. LONDON, July 31. Commander Leslie Griffiths. D.5.0., R.N.R., who served with distinction with the New Zealand Shipping Company before the war. was killed with his wife when a flying bomb crashed in southern England recently.

Commander Griffiths was a midshipman in the last war. He was recalled to the R.N.R. in 1939, and won the D.S.O. in 1940, when his ship was lost in enemy action.