Barrage is Sent Up; St. Paul's in Danger London, Sept. 14. HE streets of central London were pitted with danger last night when shrapnel clattered on roof-tops and whizzed through windows after German planes had bombed the historic House of Lords and Buckingham Palace yesterday. vi German planes were flying over London last night at the lowest altitude yet seen, dumping tons of incendiary and.sereamer bombs over wide sections of the city.
So many British antiireraft batteries were firing at once shortly before midnight that the sky looked as if rivers of oil had suddenly been ignited.
Some of the German planes were estimated to have crossed the heart of the city at only 5,000 feet.
Flames started by an incendiary bomb which hit the House of Lords late yesterday. were soon extingulshed-and no damage to the, building was visible from the street, During the third alarm of the night the" German raiders adopted the "error ide." in an obvious effort to evade detection. "The bombers cut their motors and glided in low, dumped their bombs and then made ndash for safety.
Bombs dropped by these planes Included "screamers" of the all-drum type, which sent up huge columns of Black smoke.
United Piss correspondents. stationed throughout London agreed that last night's anti-aircraft barrage surmounted anything heard here yet.
"Anivaireratt. shrapnel is coming down like rain In Fleet Street," one correspondent reported by, telephone. "Sparks are fying in' the street where the shrapnel is hitting the conerete."
Mr. Edward W. Beattie, reporting: (rom London's West End, said "it is hailing: steel around here."
'Small, rapid' fung guns, medium and' big_guns, all' lot loose, against the waves of German bombers sweeping low over the heart of the, treat which characterized activities throughout the day. jambs were dropped in one dis trict in central London, in East bourne, in some places in Kent and inv one town in Surrey. Some casual tes were reported in London.
'German raiders dropped a veritable shower of incendiary' bombs in cen tral London, some of them landing, the streets and some on buildings.
Their Majesties Remain Calm After the bombing, King George and Queen Elizabeth walked through the cellars of the Palace and talked reassuringly to the members of their staff. One bomb completely wrecked the royal chapel in the south wing Of the Palace, close to the ambassa-
Reliable quarters repotted that five bombs dropped on Buckingham Pa-Ince. Two were said to have fallen in the inner quadrangle of the French Ships Pass Gibraltar Straits Gibraltar, Sept. 14.
Apartment Hit bomb landed only fifty fect from. me," another correspondent, Mr, Frederick Kuh, reported, "The explosion shook the entire nelghbourhood, The German plane could neither be seen nor heard, The expl sion was followed by a terrific eras of glass and masonry.
Men and women ran for cover. The projectile had hit an apartment bulld-Ting in the heart of the business dis-(Het. 1 escaped because T heard the Whistle of the bomb as T was walking Along the street and T immediately ducked into a doorway."
The third air alarm ost night Insted only eighteen minutes. Just before the sirens sounded, people in two London districts heard a whist-Ting noise followed. by two oxploslons, The German planes had glided over. the city and dropped several bombs before being detected.
Im another section of the ci people said they heard the burst of fhachine-yun fire from a plane. Whether the fire came from RAP. pursuit fighters, or whether the Goi man planes wore attempting machine-gun British searchlights, could not be learned.
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