CHILDREN FIRED ON.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 264, 5 October 1940, Page 8

CHILDREN FIRED ON.

BY NAZI RAIDERS. BRITISH REPRISALS. LONDON. Oct. 3. In addition to the bombing of nine London districts and a town to the westward and another to the southward, afternoon raiders machine-gun-ned a recreation ground in the Midlands where children were playiug. The plane flew at 300 ft and bombed a factory, also working-class areas, causing some deaths. The night raiders arrived punctually over London, also Wales. RAIDS IN DENMARK.

The Times’s Stockholm correspondent says observers at Malmo say they saw flashes and heard heavy explosions in the direction of Copenhagen m the early hours of to-day. The Danes admit' the British bombed several parts of Denmark, especially Western Jutland. Planes later flew over Malmo and dropped two bombs in parkland, also several in Swedish territorial waters. , ~ A Jiucliareet report says travellers from Leipzig state that the German railways are seriously disorganised as a result of British bombing. People arc forced to change trains fifteen times between Leipzig and Vienna. It is admitted that troop trains are holding up traffic, but the line is badly bombed at several places, it is reported that the railways of Western Germany arc more severely dislocated.

AMERICAN TRIBUTE.

(British Official Wireless.)

ItUGBY, Oct. 3.

A touching tribute has been received by the British Ambassador in Washington in a letter from Mr Harold Cuthrell, of North Carolina, who says: “We people in the town of Eastern Caroline wish to express through von our deep and sincere gratitude to the R.A.F, for its courageous, tenacious, aiid victorious stand against the Nazi criminals and barbarians. We glory in the lighting strength and invincible spirit of the British airmen who are wresting the air superiority from Gooring’s vultures. “We are grateful to all the brave lads in the R.A F. who are fighting heroically to turn back and conquer Hitler’s gangsters. God speed them to victory 1”