A large block of apartments in the West End, ordinarily accommodating about 1,000 persons, was compulsorily evacuated by British officials yesterday Afternoon. The apartments had been damaged by bombs on Monday night and were regarded unsafe.
A four story business house on Savile Row in the same area wi flattened to the ground by a di hit Monday night. Smashed to ruins by the heavy bomb, the building caught fire and burned to the ground. The area is noted for its tailoring emporiums which were visited in Déacetime by many British kings and other notables.
Piccadilly, Park Lane, Berkeley Square, Bond Street, Oxford Street, Sloane' Square, the Mayfair and Bruton Street were also bombed on Monday night. Many areas of the fashionable West End resembled the ruined East End slum areas yesteiday.
A number of very well known stores in the West End were either completely or partly c yesterday because their plate gla: been shattered and the arranged by concussion. Fashionable shopping streets w re carpeted with broken glass as thick as In most West End areas, howe business proceeded as usual. stores remained open absence of ingle pane of in their window:
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