Cinema B embed in Raid Extending Over Three Suburbs; Populace Sips'Tea London, Aug. 23.
\AKING advantage of moonlight, German planes crossed the Channel and carly this morning unloaded bombs on three London suburbs, the nearest of which was only 30, minutes by taxi from Piccadilly circus.
Almost half the populace of the three London suburbs which were bombed remained either in beds or gathered in living rooms and sipped tea throughout the air raid alarm.
'A movie theatre was hit by a bomb a London suburb and the same bomb demolished an adjoining hall, 'A public house and a number of private dwellings in the same district were severely damaged, but the Air Ministry said that there were only a few casualties. In another suburb 2 second cinema was damaged. A bank and flats above shops were damaged. Some persons were injured.
The sudden air attack on the London oven was the first German venture Into the capital region since Sunday.
From reports of United Press respondents living in various districts of London, ranging from the West End and south-west to the East, apparently the residents of these. areas remained exceptionally calm during the alr raid alarm, 'Many remained in their beds. while others, who. were aroused by alarm, Wot up and "made tea' which they
hall of the populace, however, sought Sinped in their ving rooms. "About shelter in dugouts,
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