FIGHTS OVER LONDON

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1940, Page 5

FIGHTS OVER LONDON

PEOPLE IN THE STREETS THRILLED MORE DETAILS OF BOMB DAMAGE. CASUALTIES IN SOME AREAS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, October 13. Thousands of people lining London streets saw fighters repulse several attacks on the Metropolis today and were thrilled by the spectacle of a solitary Spitfire swooping on nine German fighter-bombers. Attacking from the west, the lighter dived from 5,000 feet on to the Germans, who scattered. Heavy gunfire and explosions oi bombs were heard in lhe evening. Seven persons are known to have been killed and a number seriously injured when a bomb hit an underground station yesterday. London had six alerts yesterday. The last ended early today, affording those in shelters many hours of sleep. A bomb fell on a London square, killed five persons and a number were sent to hospital. Another bomb, falling in a street, fractured water and gas trains and caused a fire, which was quickly extinguished. Members of the A.R.P. took 200 people from a nearby public shelter to other shelters. Five explosions in a London district demolished a public house, in which there were casualties, and surrounding houses and also partly demolished a block of luxury flats, where members