MERCILESS TACTICS
RANDOM BOMBING HOSPITAL WARDS HIT MANY OUTBREAKS OF FIRE \ . .■..;■;.•',LONDON, Sept.. 9 . :. (Received. Sept. 9, at 11.15 p.m.) Further salvoes of bombs to-night produced more firvs; which are blazing in many parts, A bomb landed outside a' big London newspaper office, but tho workers were sheltering, and escaped injury. A tar distillery on the north bank of the Thames was still burning fiercely' this morning. The matron of a hospital in East London stated that two wards were demolished and : there were some deaths. The raiders' usual tacticr were to drop a salvo of bombs, including incendiaries, and dodge wildly away from searchlights and swerve for a return dive, in which the remainder of the bombs were unloaded. Others merely dropped incendiaries and waited until fire illuminated the target before swooping down for the major attack. Later raiders apparently strove to keep up or increase the first fires while bombing any new objectives they illuminated, regardless of the thickly-populated area.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24399, 10 September 1940, Page 7
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