FIREMEN HEROES OF STRUGGLE AT NIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 217, 12 September 1940, Page 7

FIREMEN HEROES OF STRUGGLE AT NIGHT.

MJV OF BOMBS. Many Londoners Killed In Wrecked School. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Reed. 1 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 11. Fires started in last night's raids were still burning, and a smoke pall hung overhead as Londoners began another day's work to-day. The City and the East End again received a terrible hammering, as bombs fell almost without intermission throughout the hours of darkness. Auxiliary and regular firemen were again the heroes of the night, wrestling with the outbreaks under the constant threat of further bombs. Four high-explosive bombs, followed by incendiary bombs, buret in a warehouse in the business area of Central London, causing fires. Some of the buildings were seriously damaired. Firemen working in the street where the blaze was most intense clambered to the upper floor of a slightly burning building in order to direct their ho see to premises more seriously threatened. A flaming "bread basket" fell outside a shop, and burning oil spread along the street. Members of the auxiliary fire service extinguished the flames while bombs were falling in adjoining street*, in which houses were demolished. An aerial torpedo completed the destruction of blocks of shops in an area where a smaller bomb had caused damage the previous nlgbt. It is feared that many men, women and children, who had been evacuated from their homes after Saturday's iaids, were killed when an East End school was wrecked. The school ha J provided a refuge for about i>oo homeless people. Doctors and nurses worked with torches treating the survivor?, who were rescued from under tons of debris. Masonry and girders crumbled down on the refugees, who were sheltering on the ground floor. The rescuers found two babies, of nine and six months, alive under the ruins. Dozens of streets in this area presented a scene of mass wreckage. Mrny people emerging from their Anderson shelters found their homes demolished.

ALLEGED NAZI AGENT.

CHARGES DISMISSED. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 11. The Federal Court hae dismissed charges against Herbert Hoeline, an alleged German agent. The prosecutor said the arrest of Emil Wolfe, who was sentenced at Balboa on August 19 for acting as an unregistered foreign agent, had accomplished the desired objective.

JAPAN SUFFERS.

TYPHOON STRIKES ISLAND. (Reed. 10 a.m.) TOKYO, Sept. 11. A typhoon struck western Kyushu, disrupting shipping schedule*. The damage at present is not known. A later report states that at least 22 people were killed and 50 houses destroyed.