AIR BALD SECRETS

Evening Star, Issue 17032, 1 May 1919, Page 8

AIR BALD SECRETS

HOW LONDON SUFFERED. Further disclosures of the damage done I by the Gorman air raids on /jondon are given in the official reports 'of the London Fire Brigade, issued early in March. Tu those raids no fewer than 12theatres, rm-:iy ; rhools, and several fire stations wpiv damaged The theatres were :—Lyceum, 'Aldwych. Strand (3 killed, 18 injured), Lyric, St. James's, Little Theatre, Ktenning'ton, Slioroditch Empire. Among the schools damaged wore tihree in Westminster, two in Bethnal Green, two in Woolwich, and others in Brixton, Sydenham, Hampstead, Lewisham, High Holborn, Lambeth, and Fulham. At theL.C.C. School, Upper North street. Poplar, 9 boys and 7 girls were killed and 31 injured (2 of whom died) in the daylight raid on June 13, 1917. Far more damage was done in the West End than has been supposed, and the houses of many well-known people, were bombed. A list of no fewer than 60 such residences is given, among the most notablo of the occupants being : Duke of Devonshire, 78 Piccadilly W. Duke of Rutland, 16 Arlington street W. Marquess of Zetland, 19 Arlington street W. Marquess of Salisbury, 20 Arlington \ street W. Earl Spencer, 27 St. James's street W. Earl of Yarborough, 17 Arlington street W. Viscount Northcliffe, 22 St. James's street W. Lord Leith of Fyvie, 23 St. James's street W. Lord Wimbome. 21 and 22 Arlington ! street W. Lord Raringdon, 18 Arlington street W. Lord Hillington, 6 Park place, St. James's. Lord Wolverton, 26 St. James's street w. Ladv Northcote, 25 St. James's street W. Lady Wernher, 82 Piccadilly W. Sir P. W. B. Jardine, 24 St. James's street W. Mr W. Burdett-Coutte, M.P., 1 Stratton place, Piccadilly. Tho residences of all the above were damaged in the raid of September 24, 1917. Mr Burdett-Ooutts's house was again affected in the raid of the following week. Others whose homes sustained raid damage a-ro the Countess of Wemyas, Chesam place, Belgrave square: Lord Aberconway, 43 Belgrave square; and the Hon. Arthur Stanley. Mr Horatio Bottomlev's house in King street, St. James's, is also included in the list.