The Archive · 1941

Portsmouth Digs Out

Portsmouth, Apr, 29.

Portsmouth townsfolk yesterday rummaged through wreckage homes, searching for loved ones and what' few possessions could salvaged from one of this port's worst raids of the war, Toward evening, survivors, joined with hundreds of previous raid sur~ wivers in the hills surrounding the smoking town (0 sleep in schools, arng, private houses, and even in the fletds, 'The raid on Sunday night and early Monday, was briefer than most such German' assaults, but during the halt hour of its height, high explosives rained down every Tow seconds, In one section' of the city every welling along dozens of slroets was molished, 'The death toll was growing hourly as rescue' squads covered more bodies. Rescuers were still digging last night in the wreck fage ofa large hotel where an un= known number of guests were buried alive, Seven rescuers wore kiriied when a bomb hit them while digging in the ving of another building.

Three hospitals were hit, One raider was shot down In flames over the sea and another was reported 10 have been destroyed—United Press, German Warning to Switzerland Berlin, Apr. 29, Carrying on Axis threats {o Switzer land, the diplomatic correspondent of the" "Boorsen-Zeituna" urges the Swiss to take a lesson from the "entastrophe of Yugoslavia, and critlelzos the government who are "negligently allowing the poptilation excess to anti-Germin suicide) opin"

Declaring that important news:

ganizations and prominent continue to side with Ger nomics and to challenge Ger= The correspondent says: "every sensible Swiss must realize that the position of his country is not such that one can indulge in this luxurious form of foreign policy."—

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