SIX ALERTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 October 1940, Page 6

SIX ALERTS

IN LONDON DURING DAY CASUALTIES AND ESCAPES. SOME BOMBING OF COASTAL TOWNS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, October 7. London had six alerts during today. Mote thrilling air battles occurred 'in the morning, when several groups of German planes crossed the Kent coast. British fighters broke up the formations, which scattered in disorder. Anti-aircraft guns put up a lively barrage when the raiders tried to penetrate inland. One Junkers dive-bomber dropped high-explosive bombs- on a Kent town, directly hitting a cottage. One person was killed and several were injured. A whistling bomb fell in a street in a Kent town. Twelve nuns were kneeling in prayer before the altar of their convent’s little chapel in a coast town in Kent when a raider dropped bombs which smashed over 300 windows of the building, but no one was injured. Another bomb partly wrecked a sanatorium from which children had been evacuated. During the second alert this morning, raiders dropped 12 bombs in a SouthEast London residential district and demolished two houses, from which two people were quickly extricated. It is feared that others are still under the debris. A shop and warehouse were also wrecked. Two persons were killed in another south-east London area. During the sixth alert, late in the afternoon, three planes were seen over Central London. GERMAN REPORT '.if (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, October 7. A German communique says: —“London and numerous objectives of military importance in South England were effectively attacked yesterday and last night.” HOMELESS VICTIMS ARCHBISHOP’S TRIBUTE. TROUBLES BORNE PATIENTLY & CHEERFULLY. (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) s LONDON, October 7. The Archbishop of Canterbury, in a speech at the Canterbury Diocesan Conference, said that about 200 of the poorest people in Lambeth sheltered nightly in an old crypt under the chapel of’Lambeth Palace. He added: “I wish Hitler and Goering could see the astonishing patience, good humour and even cheerfulness of those people in order to realise the'futility of their aims. I sympathise with

those made homeless in some measure as a fellow-sufferer, as I was bombed out of my home in Lambeth.”