Authorities were frankly disappointed at the outcome of new appeals to evacuate children from the city. They were finding determined resistance from working class mothers against efforts to break up families.
Bombs dropped in recent raids exploded near the Bank of England, the Church of St. John the Evangelist and stores and hotels on Regent Street, which was roped off from Oxford Circus to Piccadilly.
Soon after midnight, Wednesday, the first German raiders appeared and dumped incendiary bombs on northwest London.
Meanwhile, aside from London, an official communique reported that German activities during the day consisted of attacks on isolated plants at several places in England. A few bombs were said to have fallen in several towns in southern England. A hotel and some houses were damaged and there were some casualties, most of them minor, in a town in the north-east, the communique said. Similar reports were received from southern England.
The communique said the RAF. shot down the German bomber during the course of local attack United Press.
Who first machines to reach the target shortly after 8 pr. CMT, started a fire at docks which serve as a beacon to following raiders who scored numerous direct hits, starting other great fires.
"Bremen is on Fire"
"Bremen is on fire and what a fire," was the first remark made on landing by one of the pilots who took part in the two-hour raid on that port. "After we had dropped Our stuff fires came up one after another until the whole docks seemed to be burning." Flames were visible from Heligoland and were still seen from aircraft half an hour later from the German-Dutch frontier Bombs burst on the Cologne Rail way line and a number of fires were started. A series of sharp explosions at the Coblenz Railway yard indicated an ammunition train was hit. A seaplane base at Borkum was struck and a fire which started there was burning long after the raiding plane were out of sight of the coast—
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