NOTABLE STRUCTURES

Grey River Argus, 14 March 1941, Page 5

NOTABLE STRUCTURES

Hit in Various Cities [Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.l LONDON, March 12. For the third successive night, the south coast was. subjected to heavy air attacks on Tuesday night. Highexplosives and incendiaries destroyed or damaged many dwellings and business premises. tn on e town, a man, his wif c and cousin, in an upstairs room were killed, while the man’s blind mother, aged 90, in the next room, escaped. Casualties in another town included a tew killed. Bombs damaged a hospital, a cinema, and cemetery. Fighters went up in th? brilliant moonlight and engaged raiders attacking another south coast town m a continuous stream. Raiders swept over a north-west inland town last night. Fire-watcn-ers were most effective in puttingout numerous small fires. Two hospitals were damaged, also a sanatorium, wherein one patient was killed and six injured. The We«<. Midlands experienced the worst raid for some time. Incendiaries were scattered over a wide area, cauwMig many fires. A German communique states: Our bombers last night attacked Birmingham, Southampton, London and Portsmouth, and aerodromes in the south of England. It is revealed That .Buckingham Palace was again bombed recently. Three high explosive bombs fell and damaged the North Gate Lodge, shattered several big. ston? pillars, killed a policeman and two miners, and caused icrater's i,*n the Palace forecourt. Th e lodgekeeper and his wife were taking refuge in the shelter when a bomb wrecked their home near th e garden gate, at the bottom of Constitution Hill. Cardiff Catholic Cathedral was also recently bombed. An official communique on Wednesday evening states; There have been a few enemy aircraft ove * England to-day. The only bombs reported dropped were in East Kent There were no casualties and little damage.

Enemy Planes Lost NINE IN 24 HOURS. LONDON, March 12. In addition to eight enemy aircraft destroyed over Britain on Monday night, another was shot down by a British fighter on the south coast on Tuesday afternoon, making nine in 24 hours. Of the eight night raiders destroyed, seven were brought down by night fighters and one by the destroyer “Holderness.”. This is the largest number of raiders brought down in one night since the night raids began. One enemy aircraft, ready to take off for a raid, last night, was destroyed before it left the ground. The Air Ministry 14ews Service states that an R.A.F. pilot who has already won the D.F.C., for night exploits, flew to an aerodrome in France, stayed there 25 minutes, then dropped bombs and hit a ’plane on the edge of the aerodrome. It burst into flames. Ammunition and Verey lights blew out, and the petrol tank exploded. While making out reports of an action with a Heinkel, which was engaged when it was endeavouring to attack a convoy, the crew of a Coastal Command bomber learned that the enemy machine, which they last saw making off into the darkness, after the rear-gunner had sent a stream of bullets into the fuselage, had crashed into the sea. Flares and a distress signal were seen, and a naval vessel found the wrecked enemy aircraft, when it went out to investigate. A Heinkel 59 seaplane was also destroyed off the Danish coast by a Hudson of the Coastal Command, which closed the range to 100 yards, before forcing the enemy clown. The Heinkel landed in the sea, and sank quickly, while the Hudson circled overhead, looking for survivors.