ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO FIRE LONDON

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 142, 12 March 1941, Page 7

ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO FIRE LONDON

Defeated By Watchers LONDON, March 10. Londoners again demonstrated their ' capacity to defeat attempts to set fire to the city when German bombers attacked last night. Firemen and fire watchers put out hundreds of fires. The attack was not as concentrated as on Saturday. Explosives in one London area killed five persons, seriously injured five more, and damaged a house' and gas mains. Four explosive bombs fell across workers' tenements, burying a man and his wife and her sister. Their bodies were not recovered till this morning. The frontages of a number of houses elsewhere were cut off, as though by a huge knife. Bombs demolished the suburban home of Mrs. Martha Paynter, who is 80 years old. Neighbours vainly searched under debris and later discovered Mrs. Paynter asleep in an Anderson shelter with four inches of water around her bed. Another elderly woman was in bed in an upstairs room ■ when a bomb blew out the roof and one wall. A rescue party brought her down unhurt. The German communique states: “The Luftwaffe attacked London. Portsmouth, and several harbours in south England and Scotland. The Roval Air Force last night did not fly over the Reich or occupied territory. During daylight today enemy air activity was mainly over the Channel and south-eastern England. Early this morning an enemy aircraft dropped bombs on a town near the south coast. Some houses were damaged, but no one was seriously injured. Bombs were dropped elsewhere during the day, but did little damage and no casualties have been reported.