TERRIFIC BATTLE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 August 1940, Page 7

TERRIFIC BATTLE

OVER BRITISH NORTH-WEST DISTRICT

SOME DAMAGE & CASUALTIES IN LONDON.

DELIBERATE ATTACK MADE 'ON HOSPITAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) LONDON. August 30. The most furious German attack in last night’s raids over Britain apparently was centred on a northwest coastal district, where a terrific and spectacular contest ensued between anti-aircraft batteries and relays of bombers, sweeping in over a wide area.

The raiders dropped many high explosive and incendiary bombs. Two persons were killed and thirty were injured. Fires broke out at a number of points, including two warehouses, but fire brigades successfully went into action. A children’s hospital, two public houses and two private houses were damaged. A bomb fell on an auxiliary fire service station. Other bombs broke gas and water mains. London was not unscathed last night. Two screaming bombs fell in one London residential area, demolished two houses and caused a number of casualties.

Casualties were also caused when a raider, apparently damaged, jettisoned bombs on a large housing estate in north-eastern England. demolished three houses and seriously damaged several others. A father, mother and son were trapped in one of the several houses damaged. when 20 high-exnlosive bombs fell on a north-east coast town. A rescue sound dug out the parents and continued Ihe search for lhe boy. Incendiary bombs fell on an isola(ion hospital in the north-east. One foil through the roof of a ward from which all patients except two had boon removed to shelter. These two were a convalescent sailor and a patient who was too ill to be moved. The '■oiler veunteered to care for the patient. When the incendiary bomb crashed Io the floor the sailor picked it iin with blankets and threw it outside. Other convalescents helped the nurses, porters and Home Guards to deal with other incendiary bombs. The matron said it was a deliberate attack. The hospital was at some distance from a town.