NIGHT METHODS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 February 1941, Page 6

NIGHT METHODS

USED BV NAZI DAY BOMBERS t ATTACK ON LONDON AREA. SOME HOSPITAL AND OTHER CASUALTIES. (Ey Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright i (Received This Day. 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, January 31. Raiders resorted to night time methods today in a concerted daylight attack on the London area. They bombed a number of district. Waves of raiders flew in from several directions, which is the familiar night time method. The Germans are believed to have been baulked in night raiding by weather and they are attempting night tactics in daylight. More raiders appeared than yesterday, making _ the London area their chief objective. ttA.F. fighters were heard frequently during London's succession of alerts. Thirty members of a London ambulance unit had a narrow escape when a raider scored a direct hit on a hospital and killed one ambulance attendant and seriously injured a medical student.

A bomb hit the boiler-house of another hospital and shattered the windows of the hospital chapel. One person was killed. A huge bomb whistled over a crowded shopping centre and landed in a busy street. Miraculously only two persons were injured. Shoppers elsewhere extinguished a shower of incendiary bombs. A heavy barrage frustrated the attempts of" raiders to machine-gun balloons. Showers of incendiary bombs fell in another district. A schoolboy was injured when he attempted, barehanded, to handle an incendiary bomb.

HOUSES WRECKED BOMB FALLS IN LONDON SQUARE. BIRMINGHAM PREPARES. (Received This Day. Noon.) LONDON. January 31. A heavy explosive bomb this afternon fell in a London Square. Bombs>.elsewhere wrecked a number of houses and some persons Were killed or Injured. feombs ih an East Anglian town destroyed a Congregational church and ddhfaged houses. The casualties included a woman killed when her house collapsed. Shoppers took cover as a raider skimmed roof-tops, machinegunning stre'ets. A raider was brought dbwh in the sea off Cornwall. Birmingham is hastening its plans in case of devastating raids and has GO.OOO people enrolled for fire-bomb lighting, including 2.000 in supplementary fire parties, 16,000 wardens and 5000 watchers in premises. The Home Guard is arranging picket areas where the danger is greatest. A hundred rest centres, equipped with bedding and clothing, are being established for the homeless. The A.R.P. Committee is planning that at least 10,000 people can get a hot meal in the event of an emergency and also to provide for the removal and storage of furniture from bombed houses. GERMAN CLAIMS (Received This Day. Noon.) LONDON, January 31. A German communique claims that bombers yesterday hit Mildenhall. Wattisham aitd Honnington aerodromes. destroyed grounded planes and set fire to a munition dump on an Army drill-ground in South-East England.