ONLY ANGER

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1940, Page 7

ONLY ANGER

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.

EFFECT OF RAIDS NAZIS' WRONG TACTICS LONDON LANDMARKS HIT

Rec. 5.5 p.m. Rugby, Sept. 2o. British Official Wireless. Indiscriminate German bombing seemed even more senseless and criminal 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 th" part of the Germans in the 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 a neutral observer, "they are a tougher proposition than the Germans can deal with." Soon after midnight Reich-Marshal Goering launched one of the most frenzied attacks yet made on London. Sections of raiders sought out an important part of central London and a famous shopping area. They first rained hundreds of incendiary bombs, circled round their taxgets, then dive-bombed. Swooping recklessly under a balloon barrage they joined in a series of furious attacks. Historic Church Damaged. Valuable stained-glass windows were blown in at rn historic central London church. A bomb blew out the interior of a bank a few yards 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, enveloping a college, business premises and furniture depositories in which there were highly inflammable goods. Many nearby buildings were evacuated. Fire-fighters worked on through a hail of shrapnel. Daylight found only the shells of the buildings standing. In one well known street the walls continued to collapse in clouds of dust, debris and smoke. In a south-west suburb a line of three shops was wrecked. The adjoining three were wrecked a few nights ago. Particularly heavy high explosives caused great damage and many casualties in one of London's most popular centres, while residential areas elsewhere were again damaged. Selfridges. in the West End, is among several departmental stores which suffered damage in the course of recent enemy night bombing. An Indian students' hostel has also been damaged.