LONDON'S FIRST SINCE MONDAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 150, 21 December 1940, Page 12

LONDON'S FIRST SINCE MONDAY

LITTLE DAMAGE DONE

HRES SOON OUT

J&y*, •Telegraph.—Press Association—Copyright.) T^feeceived December 21, 11 a.m.)

LONDON, December 20.

tonight's alert in the London area, the first since Monday night, came early and was soon followed by gunjpLre, but the raid did not develop. Half a dozen high-explosive bombs i\vere dropped in one area, and also several incendiaries, "out the resulting ifires were soon extinguished. The all Clear was sounded weE before midnight

Raiders are reported from .various Jother parts of the country, but there is no evidence of attacks on a "blitz" scale.

A German bomber machine-gunned fcoads on the outskirts of London this inorning, but there were no casualties. It disappeared, losing height, shaving apparently been hit by gunfire. People in another London district this morning believed that a lowflying aeroplane was British until they saw bombs dropping, and no alert was sounded. There was little damage, and no casualties resulted.

An Air Ministry communique states jthat there was little enemy activity last night A few bombs were dropped in the south and south-east of England in the early hours of darkness. Rattle damage was done and there were {l^ery few casualties.