RESCUERS TRIUMPH OVER ADVERSITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 216, 11 September 1940, Page 7

RESCUERS TRIUMPH OVER ADVERSITY.

VALIANT DEFENDERS. Loss Of Amenities Causes Little Concern. (Reed. 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 10. Twenty-two houses were demolished, with casualties, in two adjoining streets in the south-east London area. A number of people were killed when a bomb fell on the corner of two streets in central London, sending seven houses crashing to the ground. Fifteen hours after a house in southeast London had been demolished by a bomb, rescuers were still working to release a family of five entombed in the debris. A stretcher party was killed while on duty in south-west London. The fire which threatened Bow Church was one of the biggest. _ Hundreds of firemen worked feverishly in the narrow side streets and saved the church. Many people in an east London district have been without gas since Saturday night, and some localities temijorurily are without both gas and water. The communal feeding system instituted in the East End is working effectively. The Minister for Food, Lord Woolton, stated that damage done to foodstuffs was not important and did not affect rationing. He urged traders to get stocks from the docks as speedily as possible, and warned retailers to shelter their stocks. Splinters of glass have pierced even canned foods. One raider dropped a salvo of bombs in a residential area in a south-east seaside town at noon to-day. Two women were killed, and several people were injured. _ A broken water main threatened the lives of eight people who had taken refuge in the cellars, but their screams attracted the attention of the rescuers. Several people were killed when a high explosive bomb fell in north-east London. Seven houses crashed, making a huge pile of debris. Firemen fought the fires in the vicinity of St. Paul's for eight hours, amid falling bombs and crashing debris. Fires raged in several localities round the cathedral, which was not damaged. The wind blew the flames from the nearest fire away from the building.