AFTER A LULL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 December 1940, Page 5

AFTER A LULL

RESUMPTION OF RAIDS ON LONDON REPORTS ON MERSEYSIDE BOMBING. CASUALTIES AS A WHOLE NOT HEAVY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, November 30. The comparative quiet of London’s nights lately was broken last night by the heaviest raid for some time. I

A heavy bomb in the London area killed seven persons and injured several others. Most of the casualties occurred in two public-houses. Two ambulance men were, killed and three wardens were seriously injured. An audience in a London cinema, when an incendiary bomb blazed up, remained calm while the staff dealt* with the bomb. The enemy’s attacks were mainly directed against, the London area, and there were many fires, but few of them were serious. Most were soon put out and all were under control by the early hours of the morning. A number of houses and some other buildings were damaged and a few people killed and others injured. Bombs were also dropped in places in southern and south-eastern England

and one poiut in the south-west. At a few of these places fires were caused and houses damaged. The number of casualties reported from all these areas is small. At Liverpool and one other place in the north-west of England bombs were dropped, but these again caused very few casualties and little damage. Described by the Nazis as a heavy “reprisal” attack, the night’s raids on Britain are the subject of a further Ministry of Home Security communique, which states: “Further details are now available of the raids on London last night and on Merseyside on the previous night. These confirm that the casualties on the Merseyside as a whole were not heavy, but a number of persons were killed and injured in one building which received a direct hit. . , . “The casualties in London- last night were somewhat heavier than was at first thought.” Today three enemy aircraft were destroyed while the R.A.F. lost two fighters, the pilots of which, however, are safe, states an evening communique, which adds that during daylight today the enemy air activity was mainly concentrated on the south-east of England and bombs were dropped in several places in this area. During the morning a small number

of raiders succeeded in reaching London and dropped a few bombs, but did no great damage and caused few casualties.