DAYLIGHT RAID

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1940, Page 6

DAYLIGHT RAID

DAMAGE AND CASUALTIES IN LONDON 4 BOMBING DURING RUSH HOUR. WITH TRAFFIC IN FULL SWING. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, September 6. It is officially announced that the sounding of air raid sirens is being reduced from two minutes to one minute. Sirens sounded in London four times today up to 6.4 p.m. A single plane arriving from the north-east, and dropping bombs on the suburbs, opened London’s first daylight raid. Another low-flyer also dropped bombs. Short after the all clear had sounded, bombs fell on the same street, damaging every house in it, and killing at least two persons. A squad of the A.R.P. is searching for a woman, her son and daughter. It was the rush houi' and traffic was in full swing when the second alarm sounded. One well-known railway line was put, out of action and most passengers continued their journey by bus or on foot, with long white streaks marking the line of aerial battle overhead. About 200 planes crossed the southeast coast, and the R.A.F. quickly opened the day’s bag, destroying three raiders in the London area, and five near a south-east town. One formation, defeated by anti-aircraft fire, jettisoned its bombs on a coastal town, damaging at least 40 workers’ houses. Many raiders concentrated on two aerodromes, but were dispersed before reaching their objectives. The appearance of planes high over the Thames caused London’s third warning.