London Kept Under Alarm for Two Hours Damage to Midland Towns London, Aug. 27. FPORTY-SIX German planes were destroyed as Germany increased the tempo of its aerial Blitzkrieg overnight, attacking 500 miles of cons. line, from north-east England to the south-west and from dusk to dawn, in the biggest night~ ime air offensive of the war to date, the Air Ministry announced today.
Screaming high-explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped on many areas, particularly the Midlands, but most observers agreed that the principal result of the six-hour raid on London was the loss of sleep suffered by day workers and the interruption of night work in war factories.
While a few German raiders kept Londoners in alr raid shelters for six hours, the Germans, concentrated their main attacks during the night fon an industrial Midlands town, where extensive damage was ported.
German planes, grouped in small numbers, frequently flew. over the London area and bombed one dis trict in the outskirts, where tittle damage and few casualties were reported, Tiring Methods Employed Only a few bombs were dropped compared with the length of time of the "raid over London, The raiaers, one or two at time, seemingly Ieisurely cruised back and forth above the Teach of antiaircraft guns, apparently seeking only to delay the Sounding of the. all-clear signal.
Bleary-eyed workers, arriving, for, early morning shifts testified at least 10 the partial success of such tacts high-explosive bomb: demolished house in one London area, killing the householder, although his wife and, two other occupants: were dug out from the debris and found to be safe.
The patients of one London has pital were taken to trench shelters, While most of the seriously iM were placed on mattresses beneath their Mev Five German planes flying over one istrict in the London area dropped our bombs. "Groups of searchlights frantically fingered the Tow cloud hanks seeking the raiders
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