DAMAGE IN LONDON

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 250, 19 September 1940, Page 10

DAMAGE IN LONDON

NO CRIPPLING EFFECTS. DESPITE HEAVY RAIDS. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, bept. 18. Neutral military attaches and correspondents wiio have experienced the bomb.ngs of Warsaw, Barcelona and Alaurid agree that London has already taken more punishment than any city not excluding Hotterdam. They express the opinion that the Luftwaffe » have tailed to achieve the main purpose of the raids because their bombs have not disorganised Londons communications. Thus suppl.es and reinforcements can still be sent to the areas where the Germans planned to invade.

An incendiary bomb damaged the Great Hall at Eltham Palace, a famous historic fragment dating back 6J centuries. Firemen saved the buildings front destruction which would have wiped out the last vestige of the palace where Henry VIII was educated and Edward 111 held a Parliament. An anti-aircraft shell fell on the lawn at Westminster Abbey to-day and did not explode. A time bomb tell near the American Embassy building and did no damage The singer, Hinemoa Rosieur, of Auckland, has been killed by a bomb. The New Zealand High Commissioner (Mr W. J. Jordan) attended the funeral. The Rome radio states that 1200 German planes attacked Britain on Tuesday, making unusable seven of ten aerodromes in the London region.