NAZI NIGHT RAID

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1941, Page 5

NAZI NIGHT RAID

MANCHESTER BOMBED INDISCRIMINATELY CHURCHES AND HOSPITALS SUFFER. TWO ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN. 'By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, June 2. An Air Ministry communique reports only slight enemy air activity off the British coast today. A single enemy plane dropped bombs in a north-east area, but there was little damage and no casualties. Two German bombers were shot down during last night’s raids, when the main attack was on Manchester. The raid lasted for several hours. Incendiary and high-explosive bombs were dropped indiscriminately on churches, hospitals and small homes in thickly populated areas. An enemy fighter was destroyed off the coast of Brittany by a plane of the Bomber Command. { NURSE KILLED OTHERS TRAPPED IN RUINS. NO BOMBS FALL ON LONDON. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, June 2. Manchester was subjected to a sharp attack. A nurses’ home received a direct hit and was wrecked, and one nurse was killed. This morning searchers were still at work endeavouring to rescue others trapped in the ruins. Two hospitals were damaged by bombs. Bombs were also dropped at several widely separated places, but did little damage. London had its first alert for 16 days, but no bombs were dropped. During May London had fewer raids than for any period since intensive raids began last August. WORST FOR MONTHS HAVOC IN MANCHESTER EFFORTS TO RESCUE NURSES; (Received This Day, 11 a.m.) LONDON, June 2. Manchester suffered its worst bombing for months last night, when waves of German planes showered incendiaries and high-explosives on the city for two hours. Three hospitals and a cinema were among the buildings hit. Members of the A.R.P. are struggling to rescue nurses trapped under debris in one hospital. Faint whispers were heard and it is thought that at least two nurses are alive. Five bodies have already been dug out. One nurse died after the arm by which she was improsoned had been amputated on the spot. A man, his wife and ten-year-old daughter were seen crossing a street to a shelter when a bomb fell. No further trace of them could be found until the wife’s body was discovered lying across a sign suspended from the second storey of a hotel. Later the husband’s body was found behind a wall a block away. There was no sign of the girl.