LUFTWAFFE ATTACKS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 98, 25 March 1942, Page 5

LUFTWAFFE ATTACKS

RENEWAL IN BRITAIN WORST SINCE LAST YEAR. (United Press Association—Copvright.) (9.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 24. Night raiders were rather more active over a South Coast town, also a South-East Coast town where dive-bombing was extensively employed. The raid was the heaviest since lust year’s blitzes.

Damage was done to a business thoroughfare, including two shops, a garage, a public house and a club. There were a number of casualties. Several streets were maebine-gunned, One enemy bomber was destroyed.

j About twelve girls were trapped in a shelter. Several people were killed ; when a garage in a coastal town in the I south-east received a direct hit. Rescue squads are searching early to-day ior people feared still to be buried. Alter being trapped over twelve hours, the stewardess at a club in a south-east town was still alive. Bombs fell on each side of a cinema which was rocked bv explosions. There was no panic and the show went on. An Official Wireless message says it is felt that it is improbable that more than 15 enemy aircraft dropped Iwnihs during the .night.