IN THE FAR EAST

Hokitika Guardian, 12 September 1940, Page 5

IN THE FAR EAST

TUESDAY’S BAG

86 ENEMY; 17 BRITISH*.

(United Press Association—-By Electric Telegrap h—Copy right). *’

(Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, September 11. Official reports to 7.80 p.m. show that our fighters to-day destroyed 96 enemy planes. Seventeen of our fighters were ~'lost, but three pilots are safe. LONDON BOMBED. FOR THE FOURTH TIME. LONDON, Sep. 11. After raiding over London, which lasted for eight hours and thirty minutes, during the past night; the all clear signal was given this morniug. • / The casualties appear to have been fewer than on the previous nights. The worst were in a two-storey buildings in the East End, where five hundred homeless people had been given a refuge. A bomb destroyed the building, and it is feared many of those within lost their lives. Fires were caused in more warehouses and along the river Thames. One small area of buildings was determinedly and repeatedly attacked, the'fires caused acting as a guide. -In one shelter, 3,000 people were uninjured when a bomb wrecked a number of houses.

The underground railways are operating in a- curtailed way, except in some short sections. , Communal feeding is available for the many whose homes have been destroyed. The Health Minister asks, those able to assist to aid the homeless with, furniture and accommodation. The Lord Mayor has started a refugee relief fund. OFFICIAL ACCOUNT. LONDON, Sep. 11. It is officially announced that enemy planes delivered a further succession oi bombing attacks on London on Tuesday night. Bombs also fell at random in many places in the. suburbs of London and in the surrounding districts. Fires were caused in the riverside warehouses and factories in the City of London, and also in many other parts of London, where damage was done. Preliminary reports indicate that the damage and' the casualties have, been considerably lighter on Tuesday night than on the preceding night. A fuller statement will be ma.de in due course. MANY KILLED IN SCHOOL. IiONDON, Sep. 10. Many bodies have been so far recovered from a school in the east of London which received a direct hit by a bomb on Monday. There were five hundred refugees in the school. Some persons who were extricated from the mass of twisted girders and debris were still alive, but they died when en route to hospital. LONDON, S«p.'ll. A large maternity hospital in the London area was hit during Tuesday night’s raid. All of the patients were evacuated. MOVING THE" DEBRIS. „ LONDON, Sep 11. Between eighteen and twenty thousi and Civil Defence members who are working in shifts, in addition to contractors’ employees, are toiling at a high speed in an effort to clear tht. debris and to restore normal conditions in London’s bombed areas. DAMAGE CAUSED

LONDON, September 11

Twenty-two houses were demolished with casualties, in two adjoining streets in the south-east London area, A number were killed when a bomb fell at the corner of two streets in central London, sending seven houses crashing to the ground. Fifteen hours after a House in south-east of London was demolished by a bomb, rescuers were still working to release a family of five, entombed under the debris. A stretcher party were kil/ed. while on duty in south-west London. The fire which threatened Bow) Church was one of the biggest. Hundreds of firemen worked feverishly in narrow streets, and saved the church.

Many people “in the east London district have been without gas since the night of September 7. Some localities are temporarily without both gas and water. Londoners, whose calm conduct in the face of death and -destruction from the unseen airmen is highly praised to-day by the neutral Press, settled 'down stoically to “enjoying another night of it,” in the words of one Cockney, who said he wn* grateful to the Germans for making, him realise that the sun really rises in London.