NEW TACTICS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 81, 2 October 1940, Page 9

NEW TACTICS

NAZIS FLY LOW

RAIDS ON MONDAY NIGHT

TERRIFIC BARRAGE

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.)

(Received October 2, noon.)

LONDON, October 1

Londoners heard, between 2 o'clock : and 4 o'clock in the morning, one' of the fiercest anti-aircraft barrages; so far. The night for minutes at a time was rendered hideous by a deafening uproar as the raiders, apparently adopting new tactics, swooped down in defiance of the barrage. The West End and Central London quivered as the big guns blazed away at the intruders, who seemed to be roaring over the house-tops. One big fire was started, but it was under control before dawn. Four heavy bombs, falling near a famous Central London square, caused no casualties. Houses 'in the neighbouring mews were demolished. One bomb destroyed a street of working-class houses in south-west London. Twsnty-two persons were rescued from :he wreckage. Many are believed to have been killed.

A Junkers bomber suprisingly appeared over south-east London after daylight. It flew over the housetops and the firing cannon and then roared over a train which it machine-gunned. Some of the bullets penetrated the re of, but there were no casualties.

A bomber later raked two streets in a south-eastern area with machinegun fire. The raider, which crashed at Red Hill after a fight with a Hurricane this morning, is believed to be the machine which attacked the train.

South-eastern villagers saw a Molotov "bread basket" fall. It illuminated the district for miles and eight separate fires were started. They were quickly extinguished. Four persons were killed and seven

injured in a south-east inland town when high-explosive bombs fell in a residential area. Several bombs fel lin an east Mid- ■ lands' town. Five persons were killed an 1 many injured when factory was damaged by a direct hit. After driving his sick wife to hospital through the barrage, a South ! London resident was buried when his home was wrecked by a h imb. I A raider bombed a district after the j i all clear had been sounded, demolish-j ling three houses in which five persons j wera killed and others are still buried. i A number of houses were demolished in the outskirts of East London, where j a large house was burnt out by an oil bomb. A Molotov "bread basket" fell in a field near a south-east London hospital containing 360 children. There were no casualties. The Germans bombed a thicklyi populated south-west London district This afternoon. Some casualties are reported. Today's raids came in three phases. Anti-aircraft guns repulsed single raiders in north-west, south-west, and central London. Patrolling British warplanes assisted the anti-aircraft barrage in keeping off night raiders, which in the first hours dropped most of their bombs widely in separated areas around London, int eluding northern, south-eastern, and ! south-western suburbs. | Two solitary planes were heard high ! over north-west London in the middle of the morning. Other planes were sighted over south-west and central districts. Explosions were heard later in north London. Other raiders were heard in the vicinity of the south-east and south-west coast late in the moming. It is stated officially that enemy air attacks last night were directed mainly on London. Bombs were also dropped in the Merseyside district and in the south-east of England. A number of houses in north-east London were destroyed. The damage was not extensive. Fires which were caused at ; Merseyside were quickly brought under control, and no serious damage !was done, A number of premises were hit in an east Midlands townj where several persons were fatally injured. Casualties elsewhere were not large/