The Archive · 1940

Many Saved From Basement

Relief workers broke their way Into the basement of the hotel from an building and succeeded in Feseuing. the hotel guests and staff who Were taking shelter in the Uasce ment of the hotel at the time of the times Fast were said ater dropping only a is. The bombs were said to have fallen into the sea.

Meanwhile, officials reveated that two coaches of a tube train travelling fon the surface toward London were derailed during the carly part of Thursday night's German raid, when the tain ran into the crater of bomb dropped a few minutes earlier. There were no casualties aboard the train, reports The Germans again dropped a number of flares over London during their continued air attack against the capital. British anti-aircraft Gre last Tight appeared to be more Intense than ever.

"Along the Thames, anti-aircraft batteries opened up yesterday after~ oon when German raiders attacked Ki after crossing Kent. The raiders hid inthe clouds and kept coming straight toward London until British fighter planes intercepted them. Fol-Iowing a brief fight high in the sky, the British planes chased the Ger mang back toward the coast, One of the raiders was reported to have

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account