The Archive · 1940

Homes and Business Premises Said Hit Most in Sunday's Raids

"We Can Take It," Declare Owners of Huge Sports Building Destroyed During Attack

London, Nov. 18.

London homes and business premises suffered most as a result of Sunday's German raids on London, it was reported yesterday.

A London sports building was demolished by a direct hit from a Nazi bomb. Late Saturday night 2,500 persons were dancing in the building, but it was empty when the bomb fell, and no casualties resulted, it was reported.

The managing director of the sports building said: "There was a quarter of a million pounds invested in the building, but we can take it."

Two mines were dropped in wastelands causing tremendous explosions, and making craters more than a hundred feet wide, it was said. The explosions damaged workmen's houses, but casualties were only superficial, it was reported.

Seven German Messerschmitt fighter-bombers, apparently seeking to damage an industrial works in a south-east English town, dropped light bombs, all of which exploded harmlessly in open spaces, it was said.

At one am. yesterday German raiders were over an eastern English town for the second time, it was reported.

A. hospital headquarters and two well-known football clubs in the London area were bombed last night, it was said—United Press.

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