RAIDERS TRAPPED

Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1940, Page 7

RAIDERS TRAPPED

TWO OVERINNER LONDON SEARCHLIGHTS AND GUNS

Rec. 9.50 p.m. London, Sept. 24. Raiders on London last night repeated their tactics of dropping calcium carbide incendiary bombs to illuminate the ground. Searchlights were active, and guns and lights cooperated perfectly in a trap to destroy two planes in the inner London area. After several noisy hours the London night raid developed into a series of comparatively quiet and intensively active periods. The raiders persistently attempted to evade the barrage on the outskirts and penetrate to inner London. They bombe^l the outer suburbs at random when they found it impossible to elude the heavy fire. Some bombs, however, fell in central London. Air raid precaution squads tackled in- | cendiary bombs while raiders were hcard 1 overhead and amid exploding shells. Two banks, a post office and a block of luxury flats were damaged in a northwest suburb. Raiders swept also over many parts of the provinces. Bombs fell in central London and in the southern and eastern outskirts of the capital. The raiders twice attacked a south-east coastal town, | two towns in the north-west of England, and towns in the Midlands, Wales and the north-east of England.