QUIET NIGHT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 October 1940, Page 5

QUIET NIGHT

ENJOYED IN LONDON SNEAK BOMBING IN OTHER AREAS. INCLUDING MERSEYSIDE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, October 22. For the first time for weeks, many Londoners did not hear a bomb last night. They were prepared for the worst, in view of Berlin's nightmare of the previous night, but enemy activity appeared to be even less than during the preceding daylight hours. Many raiders driven off from the capital bombed the Midlands and Merseyside. The damage to Liverpool was fairly slight in comparison with the weight of bombs dropped. It was the district’s two hundredth raid. Some houses and shops were demolished, casualties including a number of killed when a bomb exploded among a crowd leaving a cinema. One Midlands town suffered its.worst raid for the third night in succession. A cinema, hotel, institution, three schools and several shops were set on fire. The enemy engaged in sneak raids on south-east coast towns this morning. One plane dived out of the clouds and, after dropping thirty bombs, streaked for France. There were some casualties, but only one was fatal. The Middle Temple Hall was considerably damaged in a recent raid. A high explosive fell near the hall and a large hole was blown in a wall and falling debris damaged the wonderful wood carving of the interior of the hall/ Many suites of offices were seriously damaged, the side of the clock tower was ripped out and a bomb tore through the ceiling of the Inner Temple. SWIFT ATTACK DIRECT HIT ON ENEMY SHIP. NEAR HOOK OF HOLLAND. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, October 22. “An R.A.F. bomber this afternoon sighted and attacked an enemy cargo vessel of nearly 2,000 tons three miles off the Hook of Holland,” states an Air Ministry communique. “Diving down through a cloud, the pilot dropped a stick of heavy high-explo-sives from 900 feet and scored a direct hit on the ship’s bow.”