NIGHT RAID ON LONDON

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 98, 22 October 1940, Page 10

NIGHT RAID ON LONDON

LULL AFTER BOMBING

LONG LIVERPOOL ATTACK

LONDON, October 21. After a day of hit-and-run raids by single German planes, London tonight had its usual visit at the usual time. So far there are few details. London's outer defences were soon in action and in the early stages appeared to hold most of the raiders away. Afterwards bombs fell in a few London districts, and then a lull set in. Later there were spasmodic bursts of anti-aircraft fire as another raider approached, but the fire lasted only a few minutes and no bombs were dropped. High-explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped in Liverpool and other Merseyside towns. The principal attack started at dusk, and is described as the most active and the longest of the recent raids. Casualties reported are few, but houses and shops were damaged. Bombs were also dropped on a Midland town and in the i Home counties. I It is now revealed that in a recent I raid on London Holland House, the famous Whig salon of the early ' eighteeenth and nineteenth 'centuries' !in Kensington, was badly damaged. The | I eastern wing was saved from complete j destruction, but the rest of the house is a bare shell. Treasures had been removed previously, but a number of [Valuable books were lost. I