FRIDAY NIGHT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 40, 17 February 1941, Page 8

FRIDAY NIGHT

GREATER ACTIVITY

FIRE BOMBS ON LONDON

•j LONDON, February 15. It is stated officially that enemy activity over this country last night was rather greater than of late, but was not on a very large scale. Bombs were dropped at a number of places in eastern England, London, and the Home Counties. Damage was done at several points but it was nowhere very heavy, and the casualties were very few. Raiders showered incendiaries on London, hoping to repeat the fires of December 30, but the organised volunteer fire watchers, including men, women, and children, ran out into the streets though the planes roared pverhead, and prevented the fires from spreading. High-explosive bombs hit a number of buildings and some people wer,e trapped. The raiders rushed home early, after a heavy barrage. Six persons were killed when a bomb fell in a London district near a church. They were a soldier in the churchyard, four women jn a car, and a passing girl. There was a tragic scene outside a doctor's surgery when two anti-aircraft shells, at first thought to be bombs, exploded on striking the ground. A dispenser rushed out and found a man and a woman lying on the pavement. He said, "I tried to give the man a draught, but he was too far gone. The woman's leg was almost severed. I applied a torniquet." The man died in hosptial. A family of five whose house in a worker's area was demolished and who at first were believed to have been killed, were found safe in> their basement, which withstood the weight of masonry. Their shouts attracted rescuers. The explosion threw articles into trees 30 yards away. A bomb fell outside a public house where customers were in the bars. Two were killed and a number injured and the premises were wrecked. The landlord and his wife are safe. This is the third time they have been bombed out. , A raider machine-gunned a moving train in north-east Scotland today. Five persons were killed when a bomb crashed into a building in a London square. It also wrecked a social club in which there were 30 guests, none of whom was hurt.