QUIETER DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 224, 20 September 1940, Page 8

QUIETER DAY.

NAZIS LESS ACTIVE. Major-General And Wife Killed In West End Hotel. United Press Association. —Copyright. (Reed. 2 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 19. The Air Ministry announced tonight that there was no large scale action all day to-day. Two raiders bombed the east of London and some damage and casualties were caused. Fighters engaged both and shot down one. Bombs fell on towne in Essex and Sussex and at one point in the West of England. Casualties were few. Despite bad visibility British fighters successfully intercepted a large portion of the raiders and shot down a total of five bombers.

Major -General and Mrs. C. J. B. Hay were killed when a bomb last night crashed through the roof of a West End hotel and carried wreckage down several floors. The remainder of the 200 guests and staff were unhurt.

Rescuers continued into the liight digging in the debris for any people buried as a result of the damage .vhon a bombladen raider crashed last nig'ht.

Those trapped under a bombed school, which was the-..headquarters ->f tlie local Auxiliary Fire Service and ambulance services, include nurses, fire girls' and stretcher-bearers. Mist and Stiff Wind at Dover. A slight mist is hanging over the Straits of Dover and the eky ie overcast. A stiff south-westerly wind is blowing. British fighters shot down three enemy bombers this morning. A single German raider bom-bed a London area this afternoon and did co-n----sideruble damage. South-east England was also bombed but, apart from isolated attacks which caused several casualties, German activity over England was exceptionally slight.

A number of the Home Office windows were broken by a blast. The flat of Miss. Ellen Wilkinson, M.P., was bombed twice in her absence.