TRAPPED IN CELLAR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1940, Page 6

TRAPPED IN CELLAR

Several people were killed when a high-explosive bomb fell in NorthEast London, seven houses crashing in a huge pile of debris. Firemen fought fires in the vicinity of St Paul’s for eight hours, amid falling bombs and crashing debris. Fires raged in several localities around the Cathedral, which was undamaged. The wind blew the flames from the nearest fire away from the buildings. Twenty-two houses were demolished, with casualties, in two adjoining streets in the South-East London area. A number of people were killed when a bomb fell at the corner of two streets in Central London, sending seven houses crashing to the ground. Fifteen hours after a house in SouthEast London had been demolished by a bomb, rescuers were still working to release a .family of five entombed under the debris. Members of a stretcher party were killed while on duty in South-West London. SAVING BOW CHURCH A fire which threatened Bow Church was one of the biggest. Hundreds of firemen worked feverishly in narrow side streets and saved the church. Many people in the East London district have been without gas since the night of September 7. Some localities are temporarily without both gas and water. The communal feeding system instituted in the East End is working effectively. ■ Lord Woolton has urged traders to get stocks from the docks as speedily as possible. Retailers are warned to shelter their stocks. Splinters of glass pierced even canned foods. A raider dropped a salvo of bombs in a residential area of a South-East seaside town at noon today. Two women were killed and several people were injured.