GUIDE TO NAZIS?

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1941, Page 6

GUIDE TO NAZIS?

♦ CRYSTAL PALACE TOWERS NEARBY SUBURB BOMBED. AGITATION FOR REMOVAL. Art* the Crystal Palace towers re sponsible for the bombing of the sur rounding suburbs? Tiie people 0 South London believe that the tw< great towers, nearly 301) feet higl and known as a landmark all ove: the world, are guiding the Nazi planes In the last war. according to a Ger man commander's post-war reinmis cences. the enemy were ordered no to hit the Crystal Palace itself It wa: too useful to the raiders ns a sign i post. i Ever since the war began there ha: j been an agitation for the removal o I the two useless towers, the only pur j of the Palace left after the tire low I years ago Last June lite people of South. Loni don rejoiced when they heard tha j the towers, had been sold for .scrap i They would yield 16(H) tons of iron For a short time the citizens, wh< live beneath the shadow of the tow i era watched men at work on tin • North tower. The work did no I get very far. anti s<niii .-topped alto- | gether. ; For nearly two mouths n.-’hmj. ’more was done 'Phen men were j .igmn sv* n al w-rk. th.- turn* on tin i South tow <-;■ I Sir Henry Buckland, genetal manI ager of tiie Pul.we mwa !. -I svnipai th. .• with tho..e who fear that ’lit I ’owi'i* bring danger to then - homes I lh- told the Sunn iy Exprc-s "I lias been bombed, but f think that l was due to mdnwi inun.de bombing i We 1...-, e red no in. utht ; j I,»• i .(I ■ I . . ’... . •'H/xTE TOWERS” ■ ’ I am o.l*. !.u l d ih, ’ -th. tower uH. help:!.:; th. em-my laud I know tiitit my opinion ik shared I by hundreds nt people You haw oniy to a >; ’!;<■ .-min.mt:--.<f hou cx ..nd sitop-s jje>r lite Pai* 1 .we to find out how much 'hey hate Tin .1 iiP ; ■!’ .11 t > f li! nap.! lap', f.ictin?. in S alii London ■■,■..<l: 'From ’dr G. i s- ('..io i-oho'.o- th ,* the i. •■ . 'to y .i; - • .1 ' .;U C< o' <’ Hirer ’