RAIN OF FIRE-BOMBS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1941, Page 5

RAIN OF FIRE-BOMBS

AGAIN POURED ON LONDON

GOOD WORK LIMITS DAMAGE. | NUMBER OF-PEOPLE KILLED IN SUBWAY. More than 100.000 Londoners have enrolled as fire workers and many of them were in action on Saturday night, the 8.8. C. states. German raids began soon after ] dark and continued for about three ] hours, but did not cause anything i like so many fires as previous i raids. In between showers of fire-bombs, j some high-explosive bombs were dropped. One of these penetrated a subway and killed a number of the peo- | pie sheltering there. I It is now confirmed that an enemy bomber was shot down in Britain on Saturday night bv anti-aircraft gunfire, ENEMY LOSSES i SIX PLANES ON THURSDAY NIGHT. LONDON. January 11. A communique issued in Berlin ad- ] mils that six planes failed to return ! from attacks on southern England on i Thursday night. British night patimls destroyed one enemy aircraft over Britain last nigh! and anli-aircrail fire another. ENEMY FAILURE THANKS TO HOME DEFENCE SERVICES. LONDON. January 12 Further news oil the German attempt to set fire to London last night shows that one <>f the most encouraging features of the raid was the manner in which lilt' various home defence services dealt with the incendiary bombs. Rouf spotti/r:- rendeied excellent service; m fact, a small army : < < ri'i-ii to spring up fr >m nowhere t-> d,-al with the dangers. The r.nd was different from the recent German attempt to < L--ndon <>n me in that far mor.- lugh-explosive bombs were dropped ami there were ca-iialtie . particularly am-mg firemen. Generally speaking, the laid wa a failure ami was broken off after about ffn-ee h: m- - a mm b. • b-u 'a !■ raid than ] llSUil MORE BOMB FIGHTERS WANTED IN MANY BOROUGHS, j MR HERBERT MORRISON'S APPEAL il: 111-'-. I . -1..! W:r - ■ Rec.d This Day. 11 IK a m > RUGBY. January 12 ‘•k re than IOO.UOti permm in the L.-I.d- n 1.-gel! have enrolled as fire-1 bu- inw.. j-rernr. . Th.- Minister "f 1 Heme .Security <Mr Herbert M-rm-nH' h.r..• rd that rr- iil’.-: arr Mill • -hrr* • of requirements in many b rough ai <1