London, Sept. 13, Many points of historic interest in London have suffered from German raiders in the past few days, it has been revealed. Among the buildings concerned were eight churches and this list may be lengthened to nine at any moment as bombs around St. Paul's may result in damage to the ancient cathedral.
The churches were St.
Martyr, St. Swithin's Mary in Aldermanbury, stan's in the East, St.
Magnus the Church, St.
St Dun-
Mary Wool-
War Climax Believed Approaching As Italians and Germans Push Offensives Dispatches from All European Fronts Declared Indicative of Crisis in Near Future New York Sept. 13.
The Italian offensive through Egypt against the Suez Canal and the intensified air bombardment of Germany and the British Isles indicated yesterday that a new climax to the European war is drawing near.
Despatches from Rome, without oficial confirmation, said a three-pronged Italian drive against British defences in Egypt had already started and hinted that the drive was time to coincide with the climax of the Battle of Britain and possibly with the attempted German invasion of the British Isles by a German landing force.
The two main Italian columns were reported advancing along the Mediterranean coast from Libya towards Egypt, with the cutting of the British "lifeline," their ultimate objective. The air bombardment of both the Italian and British fleets off North Africa Wednesday forecast the offensive.
At the same time, signs of German preparations on the European continent for an attempted invasion of the British Isles were multiplied. British bombing squadrons struck back at the Germans with tons of high explosives. Bombs were reported dropped on the Tempelhof aerodrome in Berlin, gun emplacements on the French coast, and barges and ships concentrating along the European coast, from which an invasion of. Britain might be started.
The German air bombardment of Britain—a necessary preliminary to an invasion—continued yesterday with bombs again falling in the London area, where it was disclosed that explosives crashed around the Bank of England, the Church of S John the Evangelist and in the busy. Regent Street shopping district.
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