LONDON HEAVILY BOMBED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 9 December 1940, Page 6

LONDON HEAVILY BOMBED

GERMAN NIGHT RAIDERS EARLIER TACTICS REPEATED HEAVY A.A. BARRAGE | U.P.A.-By Electric Telegraph—Copyright | Received 9th Dec., 2.0 p.m. LONDON, Bth December. After two days of perfect quite London received an unpalatably strong measure of “blitz” punishment to-night. The Germans for I the first few hours were almost incessantly overhead, bombs fallling at random in the poorest disj tricts and most fashionable areas. ; The raiders profited by a wind- | less, clear night, but the heaviest ground barrage for weeks, the {crescendoes which some salvos reached indicated that London’s most formidable guns were in 'action. Plane after plarte swept in from the Thames Estuary and lines of shells burst across the sky. The raiders were apparently pursuing the methods so successful in ! the first days of the “blitz” incendiary bombs followed by highJ explosives, but to-night the {ground defenders were better prepared.