NAZI TERROR RAIDING

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 267, 9 October 1940, Page 7

NAZI TERROR RAIDING

CIVILIANS BRUTALLY At TACKED LONDON AREAS BOMBED

(United Press Association.—Copyright.—Rec. 11.45 a.m.) > / LONDON, Oct. 8.

Guns and bombs shattered the night air repeatedly till dawn to-day and damage is reported from ten districts in the London area. Searchlights were much more, active than on previous nights. British planes also joined in the hunt for the raiders. .

The most dramatic first alert in the London area this morning began with the dropping of bombs, after which there was no sound until the “raiders passed” signal had been given. Two bombs fell in quick succession in a street crowded with the usual morning rush hours traffic. A thirdihit the top of a building causing large lumps of masonry to fall into the street. A fourth hit a motor-bus and injured its passengers.

DEATH ROLL MOUNTS. A steady flow of reports indicates a mounting death roll in last night’s and fo-dav’s raids against London-,.. Many casualties were sent to hospital after the first morning alert beyond aid. Two children were killed this morning when several houses were demolished and people were trapped under the ■wreckage. Three were killed and many injured in a district on the outskirts of London. A well-known school received 18 incendiary bombs, while five fell in the playing fields of a noted Roman Catholic public school. A bomb in the London area demolished electric light showrooms ’ and damaged adjoining houses. Another blew out the windows of a police station, a police court and a Town Hall. An incendiary bomb fell outside a bank in a famous street and another in an arcade. Several fell on buildings in a small area, including a large block of (flats. A Molotov “breadbasket” fell on a large London shop adjoining others which were wrecked by a large-calibre bomb a fortnight ago. An incendiary bomb' started a fire in the Evacuated wing of a hospital which the staff put out after an hour. SLEEPERS CAUGHT.

Two bombs demolished a church.

A raider going homo in the morning dropped six bombs in a suburb, demolishing two houses, killing two people and injuring others who were sleeping on the ground floor. A.R.P. workers cut a hole through the debris through which the residents escaped. A bomb hit a large building in the London area used as a salesroom and workshops for the blind, and caused a fierce fire which burned out the roof and upper storeys. A German communique says that during the whole of the night bombers ceaselessly plastered transport facilities, food establishments, and other targets in London, resulting ■■in numerous fires and serious damage.