HOSPITALS HIT

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21228, 26 September 1940, Page 7

HOSPITALS HIT

RAIDS ON BRITAIN SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED NAZIS’ AERIAL TORPEDO (United Press Asn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Sept. 25 German bombers concentrated on central London early this morning. A number of people were killed and injured when what is believed to be an aerial torpedo landed outside a restaurant and demolished a hotel opposite. It also shattered a number of buildings in the neighbourhood. The terrific blast was felt 400 yards away. The raiders later dropped incendiary bombs on and near a famous Wren church, then, guided by the light, dropped several high explosive bombs. Sixteen incendiary bombs fell on a hospital in north London without causing casualties. Several fires were quickly put out and little damage was done. Several hospitals also were hit earlier in the night and fires, now extinguished, were started at four of them. Searchlights operated at full force when the raiders arrived over central London, and the guns fired heavily. One raider dropped an orange flare, after which a high-explosive bomb crashed with a terrific explosion in central London. Bombs fell early in the night in north, south-east and south-west London. Scotland and Wales Raided Bombs were dropped also in other parts of England, in Scotland and in Wales. Casualties were few and the material damage was not great. In one town bombs started fires and there was some loss of life. In a village in Wales some houses were damaged and a small number of people were killed or injured. There was an attack on a town in the north-west of England and fires were started, but no serious damage or casualties have been reported. Bombs also fell in a country district in this area without causing casualties or damage. One high-explosive bomb was dropped in a town in east Scotland, but so far as is known no one was killed or injured and there was no material damage.