A. certain amount of damage wax Jdone to houses, commercial property. roads. and mains in various parts of the eapilal, according to the communique, which added that there were feastiaities, but that they were not heavy.
"AS. if seeking revenge for the RAF. al lack on Munich Friday night while Chancellor Hitler Speaking there, the Luftwaffe ur Tearhed. its full power up to midnight. Then quiet came.
At the stroke of 12 midnight and for a long time there-afler no planes roared. overhead. Londn suburbs were hit heavily by German bombs, 'A bomb burst in front of a child~ en's hospital in one suburb. A serv= ut girl was killed and nine other petsony were injured, including a doctor and n matron who neverthe eae continued administering first aid.
None of the children was hurt though two sticks of bombs hit the building.
Two hundred and fifty children on stretchers were in the hospital. Smashed toys mingled with broken furniture and sodden bedding. A broken water main had broken, "Heavy Stuff"
'A. Jigsaw puzzle lay unfinished on a table, A bomb fragment had taken 8 piece of rail from an iron cot in Which a two-year-old boy previous: ly tay.
Bombers bored through London's blazing defenses at the rate of one per minute, dumping "heavy stu" in large quantities during the height of the raid.
The din was car splitting. Defence guns thundered. Planes roar overhead. Bombs whistled and Big homes in the city were falling fast as bombs dropped indiscrimin= ately: in London's best residen ions, "giving the city punishment in recent months.
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