The Archive · 1940

More Wild Bombing Raids

London Residential Areas Suffer Most in Furious All-Night Assault

ROMP-SCARRED London was London, Sept. 20. subjected to more wild attacks in the: past 24 hours as hordes of German aircraft, apparently in retaliation against the alleged British bombing of Bethel, a German insane children's home, rained extra heavy bombs' at random over the capital all night long and early this morning.

At the same time other German bombers furiously bombarded widely scattered areas of Britain, including Lanarkshire, Essex, Surrey, Berkshire, Kent, the Midlands and the southest.

Londoners spent another night underground as 1 ders kept up a continuous attack of the metropolis from twilight o dawn despite a driving rain storm. It followed what was described as the quietest day since the start of the aerial Bhitzkrieg against London on September 7.

Although casualties are thought te the Belgian coast and heading (o-have been slight, damage is feared wards London. As they reached to have been. considerable, Resid-Britain they split into three groups and crossed the coast at different ences once again suffered the most, especially those in central London and

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