The German planes used their latest tactics during the night, dropping incendiary bombs which set on fire low house. The Germans then returned occasionally as the: ames spread to add aifother incen= lary or two to keep. the cauldron bolting. When a whole district Tow houses would be silhouetted Wke trees tu a desert they would! oun peppering the area with heavy explosives flaming breadbasket" fell out side_a Tquor store in one London Gistriet_and its burning el spread long the gutters. Pire-fighters, how.
quickly. put out the although bombs were falling fudjoining streets. Two houses nearby wore demolished by direct hits, but the families were safe in a public shelter.
'A. man_ walking past a brick con crete shelter in a London street was: killed when a bomb exploded in the' roadway ten yards away. People the shelter felt only a tremor.
Bombs straddled a four-storey block building and dog craters three or four fect deep, They smashed all" windows. and sliced Uranches "oft "trees ina park opposite the building. People sleep~ {ng in basements In nearby apart ment buildings said that they were actually lifted from their beds. by! tthe concussion of exploding bombs. huge apartment building in which a. United Press. correspondent fives lacks a shelter but most of the 700 tenant sprawl in the corrid~ ors of the lower floors. The United Press correspondent tried this system of protection ast night. Intervening" walls, he reported. deaden the crash of bombs, but barking" and howling dogs, bawling infants and somnolent fai women whose snores utchd whistling bombs soon made him Mee to the relative tranquility of the world.
Degun along the Kent coast. Twelve German heavy bombers flow in from. the sea to the west of the town, Britain Threatened with 10,000-Plane Attack Berlin, Sept. 12.
Britain today was threatened with daily aerial attacks in which 10,000 planes would participate.
Reliable German quarters said that 10,000 planes, including fighters, may be sent daily to London shortly when Chancellor Adolf Hitler decides to unleash the full fury of his mighty airblitz—United Press. fat about 15,000 feet. Anti-aircraft opened fire as the bombers flew over the town's balloon barrage.
Escorting Messerschmitt. Aghters circled above and beneath the bombfers. Shell pulls dotted the sky round the raiders, and one was seen to explode in the ale, When the bombers were over the! town, they loosed a shower of bombs. One wrecked a house.
'A convoy of enemy ships was] sighted from the English coast yesterday afternoon. There were at least 12 ships of fair size near Cap Gris Nez making towards the harbour at! Boulogne, 'A drive bombing attack on Dover! ud shelling of the area by German duns on the French coast were apparently intended to cover the mov ment of the convoy. British guns replied.
Later a large force of R.A.F. bomb-cers passed over the south-east coast towards the French and Belgian coasts. Tt is believed a number of bombs were dropped east of Calais—Reuter.
Newsmen Injured Dover, Sept. 12.
American correspondents, an Ati tralian newspaperman and" a. woman where injured. or stunned when a hotel was hit by a bomb there yes terday.
Mr. Guy Murchie of the "Chicane "Tribune" was injured after @ four storey fall. At" Toast three other newsmen, including Mr. Stanley Joh: Son, also of the "Chicago. Tribun baut'an Australian by nationality, were slightly" Injured or bruised—United Press.
Fears for St. Paul's Four Italian Planes St. Paul's Cathedral today stood the shadow of destruction. time bomb discovered in the vicinity of St, Paul's revived the fears frst mooted in 1021 that the Cathedral would fikely crash any day or sink into the ground, 'The "effect of a violent unde, ground "explosion near 'St. Pauls Undoubtedly' would result in terrify Strain to the structure since it was cunningly balanced. in the west end, with the foundations at no point more than four and one-hatt "feet below the crypt loot,
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