NAZI RAIDS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1941, Page 6

NAZI RAIDS

ATTACKS ON LONDON AND CARDIFF CLAIMS IN ENEMY COMMUNIQUE. ATTACK ON WEST GERMANY ADMITTED. (By Telegraph—Press /Association—Copyright i (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON. February 27. A German communique says: “Strong bomber formations last night, raided London and Cardiff and started! ft res. “The enemy dropped bombs in some districts in West German}' but most fell on villages. There were some civilian casualties.” CANTEEN HIT SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED. — BUILDINGS BADLY DAMAGED. (Received This Day, 12.33 pan.) ! LONDON. February 27. Several persons were killed and a] number buried in wreckage when ai high explosive bomb demolished a can-' teen recreation room at an A R P. de-] pot in London and severely damaged j surrounding buildings during a raid) last, night. Salvage men were eating! supper or playing darts or billiards! when the bomb hit. Within a few min- ; utes a hundred men were searching | for those trapped. ; The Germans are paying particular i attention to East Anglia which has suf- - fered frequent day and night attacks. ] Last night's raid was one of the heaviest yet. Many bombs dropped on villages and caused little important damage but churches and private pro-; party suffered. SINGLE RAIDERS I SEVERAL MACHINE-GUN ATTACKS, REPORTS OF SOME DAMAGE. i Received This Day, 12.311 p.m. > ' RUGBY. February 27. 1 An Air Ministr} and Home Security? communique .states that during the day ■ and especially since noon a number ofl enemy aircraft flying singly crossed • the Channel and East Coast as far: north as the Humber. The attacks in-j eluded several by machine-gun tiriJ but in these the damage and (•asualtii-; j were exceedingly small. Bombs have; been dropped at a number of point; j and at two of th'-se. one in Lincolnshire and the other in the W<- : Country some damage was caused by fir*Elsewhere, mainly point.- m F-x-4 An- > glia, almost the only damage dime wa to a small number of hoU.a .-ome <; ! ‘which were demolished. The number, of persons killed or sersom !y mjureu in th<-;a- attacks i. no! heavy