NAZI AIR OBJECTIVES

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 45, 16 November 1940, Page 12

NAZI AIR OBJECTIVES

Non-Military Damage In London (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. November 14. The clearest possible refutation o. re(>eated German assertions that the bombing of London has been, confined to military objectives is contained in a long list of buildings actually hit during the past nine weeks which has now been issued officially. While it is noted that the Germans speeiticially use phrases such as "confined to.’’ “aimed at." and “directed only against’’ military objectives, the list, in fact contains the mimes of eight hospitals. 23 churches. three palaces, three embassies. 2!) buildings of historic and worldwide interest. 24 squares, streets. etc., all in the London area. It is found difficult in London to determine precisely what military objectives the airmen "aimed at" in the bombing, for instance, of St. Dunstan’s headquarters, which eared for warblinded members of the forces. St. Thomas's and St. Bartholomew’s Hospitals, the Royal Hospital nt Chelsea. •St. Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, the American. Japanese, and Spanish Embassies, Buckingham, Kensington, and Lambeth Palaces, the Tate Gallery, the Temple, and Madame Tussauds. Nor is it seen how direct hits scored on the London Zoo can contribute to the destruction of the Empire’s war effort and morale.