HEAVY BOMBING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1940, Page 8

HEAVY BOMBING

ENDURED BY ENGLISH TOWN SAID BY GERMANS TO BE PORTSMOUTH. GALLANTRY OF NURSES. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright! (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, December 6. A South Coast town, claimed by the Germans to be Portsmouth-, was heavily bombed last night. Considerable damage Was dohe, but the casualties are not yet knovzn. When a bomb hit a cinema, about fifty people Were trap'ped, but there Was no panic, Numbers are still buried under debris in a working-class district. A thirteeh-yeaf’-old girl, still partially buried after twelve hours, was given morphia and warm drinks. Nurses acted as firemen when Jncendiary bombs set fire to a hospital. They beat out the flames with brooms until firemen arrived. Then, with an auxiliary pump went out of action, they formed" a bucket chain. All the nurses lost their personal belongings and money.

FAMOUS BUILDINGS DAMAGED. Three bombs recently fell in the grounds of Windsor Castle. Afipther damaged the Royal Lodge, in Great Park. Bombs which fell in the Kentish village of Kilhdown smashed the stained glass WilldoWs of a church, valued at £30.000 hhd ptifchased in Munich in the last century. Recently a borfib fell oh the Ihvvn at Holyrood House, Edinburgh, disim terHng the remains of Scottish kings and queens and breaking the palace windows. High explosive and. incendiary bombs-, hit Greenwich Observatory, damaging parts of the building designed by Sir Christopher Wren and erected in 1675. Other bombs damaged the ring of the famous Blackfriars Boxing Stadium. The Duke of Gloucester was inspecting military units recently when two German bombers flew over as he was leaving his car. Several bombs were dropped, but nobody was hurt.

NAZI REPORT (Received This bay. Noon,) LONDON. December 6. . A German communique says: “Several British planes flew over Western Germany last night, blit dropped no bombs.” ,