The Archive · 1940

Smoke Pall Cloaks London

Hospital in Central District Hit, But Damage Thought Light; Two Museums Damaged London, Sept. 9.

nearly ten hours, from dusk {0 dawn today, German "nuisance" raiders unceasingly cruised over central London. dropping high explosives, screamers and incendiary bombs which rocked the city and started numerous fires, The smoke of the huge fires spread like a pall over London in the pale morning light.

As this dispatch was being written one could hear the clanging bells of fire engines racing to conflagrations.

There were no official details regarding casualties and damage available this morning, but the usually reliable Press Association agreed that neither the casualties nor damage would prove to be as high as the Josses suffered during the furious attacks on Satur~

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