TUESDAY NIGHT RAIDS

Grey River Argus, 5 December 1940, Page 7

TUESDAY NIGHT RAIDS

London and Midlands [Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Received December 5, 2.40 a.m.) LONDON. December 4 The Air Ministry in a report states:—Enemy ’planes attacked London and the Midlands on Tuesday night. Bombs were also dropped at various points between these places and the coast. The total casualties* should not prove large. A number of fires were caused in the Midlands, which were soon got under control. No large fires are reported in the London area The West Midlands town which was attacked, as cabled earlier, suffered a ninety minutes’ concentrated attack. EXAGGERATED ENEMY CLAIMS. [British Official Wireless] (Received December 4, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, December 3. Bristol City was subjected to savage and indiscriminate bombing last week, and when Monday night’s -bombing of Bristol took place, the German press was still gloating oven the damage caused in the earlier attack, declaring that it' had left Bristol “a city of ruins.” In countries whi'ch have access t independent opportunities of assessing the damage done in the recent raids, there will be the usual disinclination to accept the German claims at their face value, particularly by. those who recall that, in justifying the attack on Buckingham Palace the Germans declared it to be a legitimate military target because of non-existent oil tanks nearby. “Harbour installations,” of which it was innocent, were said to justify an attack made some months ago on Bognor Regis. Bexhill has also been presented with a harbour by the German radio.

Londoners who had been going about their affairs with little interference, have been surprised to learn in the ’ words of German reports, that enemy bombers on Sunday night "proceeded tb London to continue the work of annihilating the British public services and supply services.”