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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 18, 1910.

A.A. GUNFIRE AGAIN FOILS BOMBERS HUNDREDS

LONDON'S TERRIFIC ànti-aircraft barrage

again proved most effective throughout the dark hours. Although enemy raiders dropped bombs in

SAVED BY

many parts of the capital, the aiming, was inaccu TRANSFUSIONS

ate.

Casualties, in the raids on London have necessitated big calls on the

Earlier in the day low-lying clouds had obscur- ed the raiders, but with the rising of the moon the skies cleared, and it was possible for the search lights to pick up lone raiders and to hold them for action by our fighters. At least one raider was dis-vice. Supplies of blood patched by this means.

The pilot of a fighter on patrol over London saw searchlights concentrate on a point several miles to the north. A Heinkel 111 bomber was held in their beams, and for twenty minutes the fighter gave chase.

up by the roots a park shelter collapsed, and a huge crater was made.

In West London a church was

com-

Though some of the searchlights, had lost the enemy; three or four of them still held him. When the fighter opened fire the Heinkel dropped. bombs to lighten its load. seriously damaged and the adjoin.

At the same time bullets from ing vicarage was almost the Heinkel's rear-gun hit the pletely demolished when three windscreen and

wing of the bombs were dropped. Parts of fighter. But the fighter's bullets the exterior walls of the church had struck home and the Heinkel were shattered when a bomb fell dropped flaming out of the sky in the churchyard, A portion of Following it down, the fighter the roof

collapsed and brought pilot saw the explosion as it down with it the interior of the crashed.

dow was destroyed. church. · Every stained-glass win-

Four other raiders, unable to penetrate the heavy gunfire, were tackled by British fighters over a south-eastern town and one is reported to have

been brought down. Another was severely damaged in a machine-gun duel and it was seen to be losing height rapidly as it made for the coast chased by two Spitfires.

81⁄2 Hours' Raid-

Warning

In the London area the air-raid warning was sounded at approxi- mately nine o'clock at night, and the "all clear" was not given until 5.30 the next morning.

An Air Ministry and Ministry. of Home Security communique Assued later in the morning stated: "Enemy air attacks during the night were mainly concentrated on the London area and on a town in South Wales...

250 Incendiaries

It is estimated that 250 incen- diary borabs fell in another West London district, but all with two exceptions were effectively dealt with by stirrup pumps.

One exception was a women's club where the damage also was not great. The other also caused minor damage. ;;

T

blood transfusion ser- ·

are being regularly de- livered to the hos pitals, often during raids, and hundreds of lives have been saved. On one day alone supplies representing nearly 300 pints of blood were given by donors.

An S O S for more donors has been made and the response has been magnificent.

TURKEY WILL

FIGHT

INFORMED TURKISH QUAR-

A famous London building | TERS SAID IN. ISTANBUL was one of the places on which THAT TURKEY HOPES FOR incendiarica were showered. The institution has its own A.R.P. BENEVOLENT RUSSIAN-NEU- service.

BALKANS The bombs did alightTRALITY, IN - THE damage to the records de- AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, partment and to some old tim- BUT THAT TURKEY WILL

ber.

Three bombs which fell in a FIGHT IF SHE IS. "VITALLY south-west district partly de- THREATENED,” REGARDLESS molished a post office and several oF THE OUTCOME OF FOR- houses in streets nearby. The

houses were reduced to masses of EIGN COMMISSAR V. M. MO- "The attacks on London were rubble, and digging continued for LOTOV'S VISIT TO BERLIN," resumed soon after dark, and were several hours.

These quarters added that any again maintained throughout The rescue party went on with

Bulgaria against. the greater part of the night. their work despite air-raid alarms, movement in Though bombs were dropped in Two or three fatal casualties Turkey. "would be considered suf- „ many parts of the capital and its are feared, but two babies ficient cause for war."

Berlin Molotov's

visit has day suburbs, most of the damage was evacuated only a

or. two caused in the eastern, southern, before from, the East End had aroused grave misgivings in Istan- silent but and south-western districts.

amazing escapes. One, aged only bul. Officials were

the "Dwelling houses and industrial about nine weeks, was found, foreign observers expressed premises in several districts were after four hours' digging, unhurt opinion that Turkey was likely to damaged, and a number of fires except for a scratch on the face, have been the major topic were started. Many of the fires clasped in its mother's arms. The the Berlin conference.-Associat- have already been extinguished, baby's little brother aged two and ed. Press. and all are now under control. a half, was rescued unconscious, "In South Wales high explosive The mother and father were in- and incendiary: bombs which fell jured... in one town caused some damage- to houses and other buildings. Details of the casualties are not yet available.

↑ "An enemy. aircraft was shot down by our fighters during the night.".

One falder

which flew over Central London released a stick of three high

A theatre in South-East Lon-- "don was set on fire by incen- diary bombs and badly damaged before the flames were ex- tinguished.

Casualties In The Provinces

of

YUGOSLAVS ON GUARD

NEWSPAPERS

In another south-east London district. a high-explosive bomb struck a maternity hospital. No TURKEY'S one was hurt, as all patients and URGED YUGOSLAVIA TO explosive bombs. staff were in shelters:

STAND FIRM AGAINST ANY One of the bombe appears to

NEW AXIS ATTEMPT TO have glanced from the roof of a

PENETRATE THE BALKANS: building. It crashed into the

They said it was. learned, that side of a block opposite, where

when the Grecian war broke.. 1-It-exploded and brought down

tout Turkey had urged Britain' to pa- large section of the wall,

When a bomb dropped near. 21 give every possible ald 16: Greece, forward of this mark and made cil control

The other two dropped in a line South-East England urban coun- Túrkey is increasing her ale

centre three houses | rald - shelters and calling up re- ̈ direct hits on a large block of were demolished. The control servists. · flats. Each bomb which struck centra was undamaged. · Five Meanwhile it was learned un- the block blew out a huge section adults in one of the houses were officially in Belgrade that Yugo- of masonry and destroyed numer killed.

slav frondier troop concentrations, ous flats on several floors,

A woman was killed when a have increased and 'the borders All the occupants of the block | bomb hit her house in "the centre of the country are being: closely had taken refuge in the shelters of a South-East coast resort. guarded especially in the moun- within the bullding, and, there Bombs fell in a line down a con- tain areas adjacent to Albanla.— was not a single casualty.

crete road, making huge craters. | ́Associated Press. Hundreds of windows were bro-

Houses Demolished

ken,

- In another South-East coast

other side of the Town Hall. The ralder gunned gasearchlight station" the occupants of which “promptly "let go” in reply.

The suburban areas, however, town whistling and oil bombs did not escape so lightly. A were dropped," and in one of the|

One of the dormitories of Lon-Lanain"streets the Town Hall -was. don's city, workers in the south- damaged, west received a full lond of bombs | Considerable damage was done, -- A 'hole was made in the roof of “. when raldera were diverted from to business and-"'other' property: a library in the town centre, and their course by the heavy barrage.) The solitary raidor had previously in, the roof of premises next, to its A purely residential district circled round the town. Its first A chapel struck had a large por miles from anything in the nature | bcmb, a high explosive, fell a few tion torn away. Six casualties, of a military objective, or even a yards short of the Town Hall. A including one fatal, have so far factory, suffered particularly, but, piece of concrete from, the canopy been reported.Alaka despite considerable damage, thero of the assembly hall was blown. The raider sped along the coast were scarcely any casualties. **200 yards on to the choir-vestry over town after "town, Incan- A high explosive bomb fall on 'of one of the oldest churches in diaries fell on two neighbouring the outskirts of a park'in South |the town.com Pole,

estates, but teams of householders London. Two tress-werg,torn. Two other bomba"fall-on the|put dres out with stirrup.pumpsins

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