ONE OF QUIETEST SINCE “BLITZ” BEGAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1940, Page 5

ONE OF QUIETEST SINCE “BLITZ” BEGAN

Only Scattered Attacks BY LONE ENEMY CRAFT CASUALTIES FEW AND DAMAGE SLIGHT (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) RUGBY, November 12. London and the country generally had one of the quietest nights since the “blitzkreig” began. “By 9 p.m., states a communique, “all raids had ceased and to 6.15 today no further enemy aircraft were reported over the country. “During yesterday afternoon and evening a few lone enemy aircraft, taking advantage of the overcast sky, dropped bombs in the London area, the home counties and at several isolated points in other parts of England. At one point in the London area a fire was started and people were trapped under wreckage. Rescue operations are in progress. Elsewhere in the country, although damage was done to a ’ number of houses and some casualties were caused the number of people killed is small. When darkness fell this small-scale attack was resumed, but only for a short time. During the period of this attack a few bombs were dropped in the London area, in the south-east and in eastern counties; and the southwest. The number of casualties is very small and the damage slight.”