NIGHT BOMBING.
MANY CASUALTIES. North-West Town Suffers Heaviest Casualties. United Press Association.—Copyrights (Reed. 12.30 p.m.) * LONDON, Sept. 18. A north-western town suffered the heaviest casualties yet, when a number of bombers made a surprise attack during the night. A 'plane machine-gunned women' and children hurrying, to a shelter. A number of policemen and auxiliary firemen were killed or injured by bombs. The night raiders' bombs hit Lambeth Walk Market and three wellknown Oxford Street etores, namely, John Lewis, Bourne and Hollingsworth and D. H. Evans. Hundreds of people sheltering under the stores were not hurt. A large bomb uprooted trees and tombstones in a central graveyard. Five bombs falling on the buildings adjoining the Bank of New South Wales set fire to the bank. It was extinguished after the premises had been damaged by fire and water. An incendiary bomb slightly damaged the Spanish Embassy. A Junkers 'plane, shot down by antiaircraft guns at Maidstone last night, crashed on two houses. Four of the crew and one elderly invalid-were killed.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 223, 19 September 1940, Page 7
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170NIGHT BOMBING. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 223, 19 September 1940, Page 7
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