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TUESDAY NIGHT RAIDERS. BOMB HITS ST. DUNSTAN’S. (Ree. 2.5 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 17. Tile first hours of to-night’s raid were less lively than similar periods in the past three nights. The planes mostly came over singly at intervals of five minutes, but groups of three and tour occasionally approached, whereupon the anti-aircraft guns fired fierce bursts. T’he administrative headquarters of St. Dunstan’s Hospital for the Blind, Regent’s Park, were badly damaged by a bomb in a recent raid. The director, Sir lan Eraser, and his wife were not injured; they were in a shelter loft from where the bomb fell.
A high-explosive'bomb hitting a huge Strand building in which the New Zealand Fruit Sales division is housed did not damage the office or interrupt work. The London manager (Mr H. Turner) said: “All the staff are safe and well. We were obliged to evacuate temporarily when New Zealand House, which is opposite, was temporarily unoccupied.” Fifty German raiders, the majority of which were lighters, crossed the South-East Coast at a great height this afternoon. Accurate anti-aircraft fire rapidly broke up the formations. Tlie Queen is sending a number of suites of furniture from Windsor Castle to help refurnish damaged EastEnd homes.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 249, 18 September 1940, Page 8
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