RAIDS ON LONDON.

Taihape Daily Times, 28 December 1918, Page 6

RAIDS ON LONDON.

' EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE. GERMANY MUST PAY. LONDON, December 10. Berlin intends to present to Germany bills for several millions of pounds covering damages caused by air raids. Interesting details ma ynow be published of the effect of the- German raids on London. A Zeppelin bomb set fire to a warehouse in,Wood street London, and' destroyed £500,000 worth of goods'. An aeroplane bomb weighing 600 lb. razed'six v large houses in Maida "Vale; rendered 20 uninhabitable, and damaged 400. St. Paul's Cathedral and Waterloo iand Westminster Bridges were missed by a few yards. One bomb threw up an enormous mass of' Water and * deluged Waterloo Bridge. Twenty-three incendiary bomb's fell harmlessly in the" Woolich Arsenal grounds. A bomb dropped between two trains at the Liverpool Street station and destroyed both.