The Archive · 1941

Londoners Beat "Fire Raid"

Hundreds of Inc en diary Bombs Quickly Put Out by Crowds Yelling "We Want More"

London, Jan, 6.

IHREE waves of German bombers rained hundreds of bombs on one London district last night, and early today, but new civilian fire watchers extinguished them quickly.

After rendering.harmless hundreds of incendiary bombs dropped by the first two waves of. raiders, fire watchers cheered each others' efforts and sang, "We want more."

The Luftwaffe obliged—a third wave dumped more, striving desperately to set on fire the district in an-effort which was futile because of the swift efficiency of civilians, Raiders also were reported over Liverpool, an cast Midlands town, a town in the north-west, where guns fired briefly, and a town in north-east England, where distant explosions were heard, Free French Marines Make Dramatic Stroke London's daylight alarm yesterday the' first since December 21—was caused by a couple of reconnaissance planes roaming the Thames Estuary reas.

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