THE LONDON BLITZ

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24832, 4 February 1942, Page 6

THE LONDON BLITZ

SET OF NEWS PHOTOGRAPHS Stark, graphic - apd terrifying is a collection of enlarged photographs sent from the .Press Club, London, to the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of New Zealand. These sixty-four photographs, each in its way a masterpiece of the photographer’s art, illustrate in a striking manner the damage which has been done by enemy bombing raids on historic buildings, city memorials and streets familiar to ail who know their London. They will be displayed at the D.I.C. (ground, floor), and will be opened at 3 p.m. by the Mayor, Mr A. H. Allen. In a letter which accompanied the gift portfolio of photographs, the chairman of the Press Club (London), Mr W. H. Salmon, wrote: “ The Press Club sends its greetings to fellow journalists in the Dominion, and asks them to accept a, gift of the accompanying ] set of photographs depicting something of the damage in- . dieted on the capital city during recent months. They are sent to you in no sense as a signal of distress. London has suffered grevious damage to its precious histone buildings, its churches, schools, hospitals, streets and the homes of rich and poor alike. “It can take all that, and, more if • it. comes. They gre sent with the purpose of bringing home to the Empire overseas, more forcibly than perhaps has yet been realised, the true character of Nazi bombing with all its wanton ■ v destruction of objectives-that are dear to the heart of our people, but cannot possibly be claimed as of military value. Many examples<will be found in this collection ” :