GERMANS INTENSIFY RAIDS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21784, 14 October 1940, Page 7

GERMANS INTENSIFY RAIDS

Houses Demolished In London United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright (Received October 13, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 12. Bombs which fell during the first alert this morning, being London’s 200th since the outbreak, cratered roadways and shattered windows. The Germans dive-bombed three roads on the outskirts of London. Five houses were levelled in one area and many damaged. A blast bomb tossed a number of the Home Guard the full length of a house garden and back again. A fashionable London shopping centre was dive-bombed by unseen raiders this morning. Several persons were injured and it is feared others were buried under the debris. Shops, business houses and a bus were damaged. It is estimated that easily 180 raiders crossed the coast during London’s first two alerts and in spite of fierce dogfights in which Spitfires figured, many bombs dropped in the London area and demolished houses and burst water and

gas mains. Several persons were sent to hospital.

During the second alert a bomb dropped in a London street and killed two and injured ten. A bomb last night directly hit a newspaper office in a south-east town from which 14 persons, including five women and six children, remarkably escaped. An editor and his wife were covered with the debris of wrecked furniture but both were unhurt. British ’planes at 20,000 feet over the south coast this morning fiercely fought a large force of raiders and drove them back. Up to 8.30 p.m. 11 enemy aircraft were shot down to-day. Ten of ours were lost, of which seven pilots are safe.