FOUL TACTICS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1940, Page 5

FOUL TACTICS

NAZIS ATTACK WOMEN & CHILDREN SHOPPING AREAS BOMBED AND MACHINE-GUNNED. CROWDS CHEER DOGFIGHTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON. September 1. Raiders machine-gunned and dive-bombed women and children in shopping areas of London in the course of six raids yesterday. The enemy also machine-gunned victims in the outskirts of London and in a town in the London area. Traffic noises concealed the raider’s approach. Bombs shook buildings throughout the town.

British fighters went up and hurled back the Germans here and in the south-east of England. Thousands of people watched dogfights, cheering like crowds at a football match.

The battles continued till past midnight, hundreds of planes participating. Some of the heaviest fighting came in the evening when 300 bombers attacked the south-east, including London, in waves.

The Air Ministry reports: “Our fighters yesterday drove oft’ the enemy from London and the Home counties. No serious damage was done to aerodromes which were apparently the objectives. Earlier today considerable damage was done in an Essex town, where a number of houses were hit and persons injured, some fatally. In two other towns in the same neighbourhood houses were damaged and a small number of casualties occurred. "Bombs were dropped on the outskirts of London and there was damage to houses and industrial buildings, with a number of casualties, some fatal.

“Houses were damaged in several other districts and a number of persons killed and injured.”