DOG FIGHTS
ENJOYED BY LONDONERS. BAG OF 175 ’PLANES. Per Electric Telegraph Copyright). Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this-day at 12.40 p.m.). LONDON, September 15. When the sound- of dogfights was heard over London, this afternoon, air raid- shelters-: emptied Master;: than they- had filled. Bombs; the fire of shrapnel and- machine-guns' were, completely- forgotten. Cheers sweat up frbrii every street- when • British'fighter ’planes-were seen literally tearing-the raiders-to pieces.; ;
When again driven unde-r'gropudr, at 'nightfall, people who passively- resisted tlie most, murderous onslaught .ever Aimed, at a- dviliap. community had something-tangible to grin about; They had seen with, their own eyes a.?ampte ,of the.RiA.F’s. power, which wa,s later ’expressed, by* the official bag for the day of at least 175 German ’planes.
Lohdon’s skyline is unchanged .after a week- in which alarms totalled no fewer than 70 hours.
The fact that- it is still possible to use the hackneyed- phrase “Saint Paul’s silhouetted against the sky,” is not the least”oV Londoner’s joys.
; The removal of a 500-pound time bomb was a major triumph - .' A • large area around tlie famous cathedral had been roped off for days, while the explo: sio’n; which might" have done iftfeiiarable damage 'was - breathlessly- awaited. No- service’ was held lit the nidi’hiiig, for the first t-uifii for years, The’iMitte or-ities say it should be "possible : for life around 1 the cathedral to return to ’npifriial to-morrotvy ■’ :
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1940, Page 6
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