NIGHT OF BOMBING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1940, Page 5

NIGHT OF BOMBING

HOSPITAL & BLOCK OF FLATS STRUCK SOME FIRES IN WAREHOUSES AND FACTORIES. RAIDS IN WALES & ELSEWHERE (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 11. Londoners have again spent most of the night in the air-raid shelters, the raids lasting about eight and a half hours, but the “terror” attack brought less terror than ever and not so much damage. An official communique issued early this morning states that enemy aircraft delivered a further succession of attacks and bombs were dropped on many places in the suburbs and surrounding districts. Fires were caused in warehouses and factories on the riverside and in the City. Preliminary reports say that the casualties were considerably lighter than on previous nights. The edmmunique adds that bombs were also dropped on south Wales, the Bristol Channel area, and on areas in the north-west and north-east. The casualties and .damage were light. Two enemy bombers were shot down during the day. In London one high-explosive bomb crashed on a block of flats in the city, and a maternity hospital, from which the patients had been evacuated, was hit. Between 18,000 and 20,000 members of the Civil Defence Service are working in shifts in addition to contractors’ employees, toiling at high speed in an effort to clear away the debris and restore normal conditions in London’s bombed areas.