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A small works was hit. Houses were damaged. Women shoppers were machine-gunned. Seven minutes after the last bomb fell the sirens were sounded.
The incident gives point to the forecast that official policy or raid warnings is to be changed and that sirens will be sounded earlier and more frequently.
Explosions Shake Factory Workers People in this area looked an- xiously skywards as they saw British fighters suddenly sweep out across the sky.
Workers in factories in the town looked
they heard out when 'planes overhead, and threw them- selves to the ground as bombs dropped.
raid.
or
seven
demolished, and a row of shops was
extensively damaged by * stick of bombs.
Shop windows of an entire block were blown in. Despite, the ma- terial damage, there were surpris- ingly few casualties.
Some bombs fell on a house, which was set on fire. Some cas- ualties were caused.
One woman was killed in her shelter by an unoccupied shel- ter blown from an adjoining garden.
In Came The Machine
Some bombs aimed in the Lon- don aren crashed on a works some way from a road. Pieces of ma- chinery were flung into the air and some broken metal fell on houses hundreds of yards away.
A Belgian Corres- pondent writes:-
"The German wire- less from Brussels has issued a warning to Belgian girls who, to show their pro- British feelings, are now wearing little hats with a resemblance · to the forage cap of the English and Scot- tish soldiers. To judge- by the announcer's tone these little häfs annoy the Germans intensely. With a pon- derous earnestness he tried to prove that the new fashion was ri- diculous, even when followed by a pretty woman, and in the name of German taste he severely con- demned all the other sartorial fantasies in- British spired by uniform which have been popular for some time in Brussels."
One 'employée, an old soldier, commented: "None of us needed telling to duck to avoid the blast. The explosions shook us even
A family living in one road had when we were on the ground.
an amazing escape. The mother006.666000000000 "It was a typical tip-and-run
was in the kitchen preparing a meal for her four children, three "I think about six 'planes took part. Some dived and of whom were seated at the table. When the woman was putting dropped six or seven bombs, then the finishing touches to the meal fled,
the eldest son, aged 13, shouted: "The bombs whistled as they "Look out, mam, There's some-
they thing coming." came and from the noise made appeared to be heavy high explosives.
"It was all over in a
minutes."
“STOCKING' DEATH
CHARGE
Reginald Guy Strange (24), of Raleigh Street, Plymouth, was re- The mother dropped her cook-manded at Plymouth charged ing utensils and rushed into the with the murder of Beatrice few dining-room. A second later part
A direct hit was received on a works shattered its way through address. Brown was found strangl-
small works. Another bomb dam- aged some houses.
Houses were also damaged in another part of the district by a bomb which fell directly in the centre of the road.
One family who had suffered in the previous raid were in process of evacuating their house. 'A lorry drawn up in front of the door was wrecked and furniture" on It" burst into flames. The family were in- doors collecting remnants of
their home, and were uninjured. Third Wave On London The raid without warning took place when the third wave of Nazi
planés approached London,
London has its first warning af 8.27, at a time when thousands were on their way to work.
In this raid a formation of about a dozen bombers, escorted by at least 20 Messerschmidts, swept over a South-Eastern district.
Half an hour later the raiders returned, scattered all over the sky and heavily engaged by our fighters.
At 10.40 am, another wave of raiders approached London's de
ed.
of the smashed machine from the Loveday Brown, 23, of the same the scullery roof and wrecked the
cooker at which the mother huded by a stocking in the bedroom at
her flat late at night, been standing.
PRIEST PRAYS
FOR KILLER
--HANDS HIM OVER
AMERICA'S MOST "wanted" gangster, Vito Gurino, chief executioner of "Murder Incorporated," the Brooklyn gang who sold sudden death at cut-- rate prices, stumbled, trembling and terror-stricken, into a New York church.
IMPROVING
TELEPHONES
IN RAIDS
fences, and a warning was sound- Chiefs of the Post Office and representatives of the Our fighters went up, and he- fore many minutes were over the Staff Associations are try-
His screams rent the hush as he implored protection from the priest he saw across the silent
nave.
Three killers, he said, had tracked him down.
The Rev. William Rinschler walked down an aisle, crossed to the cowering man, who is known to have committed at least seven
murders.
A Prayer
He talked quietly to him for
raiders turned tall. They never ing to work out ways of some time, then knelt and prayed
reached the London area,
About 1 p.m. came a third wave
and another London warning.
This time an air battle develop- ed over a South-East area, when
improving services during air-raid warnings.
They are particularly concern-
a large formation of enemy bom-ed about mails, trunk calls, and bers was smashed up by gunfire telephoned telegrams.
Letters are arriving late and and British fighters within about
while an air raid warning ten minutes.
Several enemy machines. were operates trunk calls are almost un- shot down. Others, their forma- obtaineble und "Telegrams" can- tion broken, fled in all directions. not be contacted at all. Five parachutes were seen des- cending.
When Spitfire Arrived In the third wave raiders rench- ed the London suburbs.”;
Diving low, with.... ghter planca in pursuit, one raider fired several burato at a busy cross roads,
Watchers Likely
One Likely consequence is the post offices throughout the country will appoint roof-top witcher and carry on us normally after the sirens have sounded until dan- ger draws near.
"There has been no great coins. plaint about the malls," un "ölf- cial said.
for him. this
After
Father Hinschler turned him, over to the police.
Gurino was charged with the cold-blooded killing of two plas- terer's helpers as they lay sleeping in their beds..
Detectives said he was the chief trigger-man lind official execution- er for the 'Brooklyn gang, who carried out mufders for prices as low as 25s. per execution.
Gurino whined and pleaded for mercy.
"I was never, u rat in, my life, blit they're out to get me. They're drald I'll squeali" he said.
"They are peleved to be the chiefs of the gang which employed
Gurno," say the police, used A cheering sight greeted. people hurrying to shelter in this district. The principal dimculty about, considerable cunning in his job. They naw Spitfire chasing a trunk calls is that so many lines He always chose a moment when Nazi "out of the sky, plugging have to be taken over by the fils victim was asleep or Helpless. machine gun bulista into him authorities as soon as sirens sound. A few wedts ugo Gurino's wife from close range, almost at "Many of the exchanges are was churged with providing a red- houzetop level. Atray bulleta placed on top fobra with glass foátlicred hát, bibuse and skirt in shipped branohea off trees, and roofs over them, and we cannot which he mistiueraded to kill two Whistled around windows.... very well expect girls to continue Sicilians in Brooklyn last your, About 30 houses were severely working in them if there should, She was released owing to insuf-
ificient evidence. damaged, some being completely be danger near,”