The Archive · 1941

London Has Alarms

London, Feb, 27.

The second all-clear signal in the London area came early today afler an uneventful evening" of seatiered anti-aircraft Gre and probing of the star-studded sky with giant search=

The first alarm came at 8.15 o'clock, with the subsequent all-clear at 10:0, while the second alarm occurred at o'clock, Earlier. "ares. incendiary bombs and nigh explosives were dropped on tone {own in western England, damaging houses and causing one casualty. Residences in a Thames Estuary town also were heavily bombed by high explosives and incendiary bombs and rescuers were probing the debris of to whom freedom ix Italian Troopship Revealed Sunk Athens, Feb, 26, The Hatin ship Sardinia, toadea with: troops "and material, was. tor-pedeed and sunk while enroute from Florence to an Albanian disembarkaton polit, according to officers among the lallan Alpini troops a tured. in a minor engagement yester~ day, the Government spokesman said "The amicers said that they them= selves had arrived In convoy from aly early in January, he said, The dale of the inking Of the Sardinia was not specified by the eaptured emeers, he added, Three heavy Ttalian bombers were reported to have been shot down into the sea yesterday, The War Ministry issued a brief Jcommunique, saying that there was "inititant action by small patrols and artiliery."—United Press,

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