High Death Toll Expected as Bomb Hits Subway West End Battered, Big Stores Struck London, Sept. 18.
LINEST continuous German air raids, which rose steadily in ferocity, last night and this morning blasted London's West End and wrecked one of the world's largest department stores.
One bomb struck a subway station which pedestrians had sought refuge and official reports said that the casualties during the night might prove to be the heaviest in the recent raids.
For 9 hours and 53 minutes, the longest raid of the war, German planes roared over London from dark to dawn.
The record raid ended at 5.59 a.m,, but an hour and sixteen minutes later, as millions were proceeding to work after almost a sleepless night, sirens shrieked a warning again at 7.15 am.
"whistlers" and high explosive bombs at random.
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