GERMAN FURY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24414, 27 September 1940, Page 7

GERMAN FURY

RAIDS ON LONDON RUTHLESS ATTACKS A DELUGE OF BOMBS DEATHS AND DAMAGE (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, Sept. 25. : Soon after midnight Goering launched one of his most frenzied attacks vet on London. Sections of the raiders sought out an important oart of Central London, and a famous shopping area Thev first rained hundreds of incendiaries, circled round their targets, then divebombed swooping recklessly under the balloon barrage, and Joined in a series of furious attacks Valuable stained glass windows were blown in at an historic Central London church A bomb blew out the interior of a bank a few vards from the church. Fire bombs in Central London started a ring of fires within a radius of a-quarter of a mile, six of which were blazing simultaneously. * envelooing a college business premises and furniture depositories, in which were highly inflammable goods. Manv nearbv buildings were evacuated. Firs-fighters worked on through a hail of shracnel. Daylight found onlv the shells of buildings standing. In one well-known street walls continued to collapse in clouds of dust, debris and smoke. In a south-west suburb a line of three shoos was wrecked. The adjoining three were wrecked a few nights ago. A oarticularlv heavy high-explo-sive bomb caused great damage, and many casualties in one of London's most dodulous centres, while residential areas elsewhere were again damaged. Humble Homes Demolished Londoners resigned themselves to an orchestra of a heavy British antiaircraft barrage punctuated by the crash of humble homes hit by bombs dropped indiscriminately from German aeroplanes. This bombing seemed even more senseless and criminal than on Tuesday night, when several more hospitals were hit, and citizens of the metropolis, who are proverbially kindly-natured and little prone to anger are now growing indignant at the lack of any pretence of decency on the part of the Germans in their hideous campaign against civilian populations. The Germans do not realise, according to neutral observers, that instead of producing horror among Londoners they are making them extremely angry, and " when Londoners are really angry," said the neutral observer. " they are a tougher proposition than the Germans can deal with."