DAYLIGHT RAIDS BY GERMANS

Southland Times, Issue 24231, 14 September 1940, Page 5

DAYLIGHT RAIDS BY GERMANS

King And Queen Not Harmed

BOMBS DROPPED OVER WIDE AREA

(United Press Association—Telegraph Copyright) (Received September 13, 11.45 p.m.) LONDON, September 13.

More bombs were dropped on Buckingham Palace by the Germans during their daylight raids today. The King and Queen, who were in the Palace, were not harmed. The palace was slightly damaged. There have been two alarms in London so far today. The first lasted from 7.30 to 8.30 and the second from 9.30 till well after midday. Thousands of persons were on their way to work when the first alarm came, but the majority of them carried on. The raiders dropped bombs over a wide area, but they were hotly challenged by the anti-aircraft batteries, which put up a fidrce barrage. After firing two rounds a battery in south-east London brought down a German plane, which crashed in a park.

It is officially stated that the enemy air attacks last night were not on a heavy scale, but were directed against many areas in Britain. The defences at many points heavily engaged planes operating singly or in small formations. A number of high explosive and incendiary bombs fell in and around London. Some fires broke out, but were quickly controlled. The damage was much less than on the previous nights.

Reports so far indicate that casualties were very small. Some houses were destroyed by bombs in two towns in Lancashire, also a town on the eastern outskirts of London. There was a small number of casualties in each place. Little damage and few casualties resulted elsewhere.

In Wednesday night’s raids on London 40 persons were killed and 170 injured and in the daylight raids on Wednesday 125 persons were killed and 250 injured. To kill these civilians the Germans lost 250 trained airmen.