RAID ON LONDON

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1940, Page 5

RAID ON LONDON

HEAVY NIGHT BOMBING NUMBER OF PEOPLE KILLED OR INJURED. CASUALTIES IN COASTAL TOWN. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, November 10. As has frequently happened recently, heavy gunfire tonight preceded the alert in London, which received a heavy pasting from high-explosive and incendiary bombs. Bright moonlight helped the raiders to find their objectives, which included shelters, publichouses, shops and a hospital. Raiders came over one district every minute and dropped bombs methodically, high explosives quickly following one another. One wrecked the rear of two houses, where two people are believed dead, and another dug a crater in a roadway in a shopping centre, but did little other damage. Several passers-by were slightly injured. The matron and a doctor, though injured when a bomb burst in front of a children's hospital, continued first aid for the injured and made a shelter in a basement. Nine were killed and injured. Raiders killed two persons and injured several others when unloading high-explosive and incendiary bombs over a residential district in a southeast coast town. Several shops and houses were damaged.

MUNICH BATTERED REPORTS OF SEVERE DAMAGE. FIRE STARTED IN FAMOUS BEER CELLAR. LONDON, November 10. The newspapers give great prominence to the accounts of the R.A.F. raid on Munich on Friday night. This is described by the Air Ministry news service as “one of the heaviest and most concentrated attacks yet launched by the R.A.F. against a single objective.” The reports of the bomber crews on their return indicated that very severe damage must have been inflicted in the hour and a half or more during which the drone of British planes was heard in the very heart of the city and close to its principal resorts where the targets lay. The newspapers state that according to reliable sources one stick of bombs overshot its mark and hit the famous beer cellar, where the Nazi Party had its birth in 1923, starting a large fire.