NAZI BOMBING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1941, Page 8

NAZI BOMBING

INTENSE ATTACK MADE ON BRISTOL FAIRLY HEAVY DAMAGE. SUCCESSFUL FIRE-FIGHTING IN LONDON. : ißy Telegraph—Prts..< Assoeiation—Copyright ■ LONDON. January 4. Hundreds of high-explosive and incendiary bombs were rained on Bristol with full blitz, intensity last night. The firemen and rescuers continued their work as the bombs were falling. One hospital was damaged by highexplosive bombs and another hospital received a direct hit but was evacuated without casualties. Four firemen and two soldiers were killed by bombs early in tile raid. • The fairly heavy damage included four churches and four schools. High-explosive bombs demolished ) six houses in one street, trapping sev- ! era! persons. Rescuers are working feverishly to release them. Many fires were started in a residential area, but were quickly extinguished. A communique by the Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security, referring io the prolonged attack on Bristol. stated: “Considerable damage was done to buildings by high-explosive bombs and by fire. A number of people were killed and injured, but. it. is not anticijiated that the total will be high." The communique stated that bombs which were dropped in other parts of England caused only slight damage and no casualties. GOOD WORK BY SPOTTERS. There were three raid warnings in London last night. The first raid started early in the evening, and the allclear was sounded at 10.30 p.m. Fire-; spotters are credited with saving scores; of buildings by snuffing out incendiary i bombs. Few high-explosive bombs i were dropped, but one of these severe-i ly damaged a hospital. Another hospi-| tai. a nursing home, a clime, a convent. a cinema, an hotel, three schools and a commercial building were also hit. The second alarm was at 11 p.m. and an all-clear came al 12.30 a.m.. but it was shortly afterward followed by a third alarm in the early morning. The last all-clear in the London area was given after a long period of quiet. A sharp burst of gunfire was heard simultaneously with the third alarm, but the only bombs on the London area fell during the first warning, do-1 ing little damage. Elsewhere in Britain the raids died: down toward the morning after the:' early widespread attacks which were mainly directed against the west of England. Other raids, which were made at many points throughout Bn- ; tain, were chiefly of the nuisance var-) ity. Last night an enemy bomber was) shot down into the sea off the south) coast. One of our fighters is missing. I A report from Cardiff yesterday sta(-i ed that the public services there were! proceeding fairly smoothly after Fri- j day night’s heavy attack.