NIGHT RAIDS ON LONDON
BAD VISIBILITY
LOW-LYING CLOUD
LONDON, October 5.
Up to midnight bombs fell in many districts in the London area and several towns and villages just outside the city. Agency messages say that the damage is believed to be small.
The raiders had to contend with bad weather as well as continual anti-aircraft fire stabbing up at them through low-lying clouds.
German planes, again tried to get through London's inner defences. The first indications were a few gun flashes in the south-east and the glare of blazing magnesium from fire bombs. Then the raiders turned westward and bursts of anti-aircraft shells continued in the western suburbs for several hours. Soon after the "alert" was sounded a single German flew in on the favourite north-west route and was fiercely engaged by anti-aircraft guns.
Enemy aircraft were also reported over the Midlands, the north-west and south-west of England, and a Welsh town. High-explosive bombs fell on a timber yard in a north-west town but no casualties are reported.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 84, 5 October 1940, Page 12
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