RAIDS ON BRITAIN

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 255, 25 September 1940, Page 7

RAIDS ON BRITAIN

BIG ENEMY FORCES

MORE BOMBS ON LONDON

(United Press Association —Copyright.) (Rec. 9 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 24. After a break of only a few hours, Germany resumed the blitzkrieg against England this morning, when 100 'bombers and fighters crossed the Kentish coast.

A large frormation of Germans were later seen proceeding up the Thames Estuary and met a terrific barrage, “dog-fights” occurring as the raiders retreated, one fighter plunging into the sea.

A British communique states that enemy planes bombed London at several places, hitting and damaging houses and several industrial premises in London and causing some deaths. Houses were also demolished in the south-eastern and north-western districts. A high-explosive scored a direct hit on London office buildings and wrecked the upper floors. - The south-east coastal area had the longest night raid since the outbreak of the war. Two bombs landed on a famous cricket grounds, damaging two pavilions. A bomb falling on a hospital in the south-east was the 22nd on or near the building sinco the blitzkreig began. . , Twenty-one Dormers appeared over the Kent coast in the second daylight mass attack on London. Waves of Messerschmitts circled around the bombers, which encountered fierce anti-aircraft fire and were driven back after ten minutes. Reports to 10 p.m. show that eight German planes had been shot down. ‘Wo lost four and one pilot is safe. HEROIC A.R.P. WORKER.

Choked and blinded, and endangered by falling earth and concrete, Maurice Vent, a member of the A.R.P. organisation, flung himself down the escape shaft of an East Loudon shelter in ;an 'attempt to save those trapped. He handed 14 through the shaft to safety. A bomb ploughed a 10ft crater in the earth beside the shelter, throwing down a section of the wall on families sleeping under it. Several were killed, including a father, mother, and three children.