LONDONERS ALERT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 March 1941, Page 6

LONDONERS ALERT

HUNDREDS OF FIRES PUT OUT DURING GERMAN NIGHT RAID. SOME REMARKABLE ESCAPES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 12.55 p.m.) LONDON. March 10. Londoners again demonstrated their capacity to defeat attempts to set fire to the city when German bombers attacked last night. Firemen and. fire watchers put out hundreds of fires. The attack was not as. concentrated as that on Saturday. High explosive bombs in one London area killed five and seriously injured five, and also damaged a house and gas mains. Four explosives fell across workers’ tenements, burying a man. his wife and her sister, whose bodies were not recovered until the morning. The frontages of a number of houses elsewhere were cut off. as though by a huge knife. Bombs demolished the I suburban home of Mrs Martha Paynter, aged 80. Neighbours vainly i searched under the debris and later I discovered Mrs Paynter asleep in an Anderson shelter with four inches of! water around her bed. Another elderly woman was in bed in an upstairs room when a bomb blew out the roof and one wall. A rescue party brought her down unhurt.

GERMAN COMMUNIQUE

ißeceived This Dav. 12.55 p.m.) LONDON. March 10. A German communique stales: "The Luftwaffe attacked London. Portsmouth and several harbours in South England and Scotland. "The R.A.F. last night did not fly over Reich occupied territory."