The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-09-12

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'Tondon's New Barrage Smashes
NIGHT Raiders" biggest Barrage
shocks Nazis; New Weapon Believed
In Action" and London Gives
Raiders Shock by Biggest Barrage,"
were typical screamer headlines over
stories which referred to a new
weapon.
Fifth Night Attack
For the fifth night, the Germans
attacked the capital in force at dark.
This time, as their vanguard ar
rived. there was a sudden earth
shaking roar as hundreds Of bat
teries, many of them silent for weeks
past in hidden emplacements, went
into action - an action which they
continued for the eight hours and
SO minutes of a raid that ended at
5:35 q, m. (12:35 a. m. EDIT.
It is unlikely that there could
have been such a bombardment by
anti-aircraft guns in history. The
guns shook the city as even the
heaviest German bombings had
failed to do. Watchers who had
braved the fury of German attacks
on top of buildings were forced to
cover by a veritable rain of shell
fragments. People who had slept
through the heaviest bombing raids
stayed awake all night.
But though they were noticeably
more bleary-eyed than they had
been after the four previous nights
of mass attacks, LondonerS smiled
and ioked with each other on the
British retort, and jostled each
other to collect shell fragments as
souvenirs.
Nazis Do More Damage
But the German planes did more
damage, killed more people, left
more people homeless and destitute.
Two more hospitals were hit during
the night. There were several ter
rife explosions as heavy bombs were
dropped. One of the big ones re-
duced a five story building to rub
BILE. -
But a survey showed that damage
was both more widespread and IN
sum much less severe then in the
previous four mass raids.
At least two German planes were
shot down over London itself and
possibly four were shot down over
London itself, and the air ministry
asserted that the Germans had lost
in all SO planes yesterday against "a
British planes, the pilots OF seven
OF which landed safe.
A great, heavy canopy OF black
smoke hung over the entire city and
along all horizons this morning. But
only the faintest of CLOVIS at wide
" scattered points told of fires
cauSed by bombs, and the fire sit
uation was under control to a
greater extent than at any time
since the terror raids started last
Saturday night.
Nazis Meet Barrage
AZ the German planes ran into
Loi,don,s barrage during the night
watchers on the Dover coast saw q
big force of British planes fly across
the channel, and then heard the
blast of bombs and saw great col
umns Of smoke rising from targets
on the French coast.
The admiralty had announced las
night that its ships were taking
strong and repeated offensive actor
against German shipping move
ments, ports and shipping concen-
trationS.
these operations have inflicted
losses upon the enemy as well as
damage to port facilities which
would be vital to him in event Of
an attempt to invade England, @
communique said. Further details
can not be given without disclosing
information useful to the enemy"
In Heart of Berlin
British bombers dumped heavy
loads of high explosives on military
detectives in the heart Of Berlir
again today, the air ministry report
ed, damaging great Tempelhof air
drome, the Anhalter railroad sta
ton and gun positions in the Tier
garten.
Starting at midnight, the secone
straight nightly raid on the German
capital conceded with widespread
and damaging bomber attacks OF
Nazi targets throughout northwest
ern Germany, in the low countries
and along the French coast wher'
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
reported Adolf Hitler was massinl
men and ships for a possible attemp
to invade the British Isles next week
The British bombing attacks OF
Bremen, Hamburg, Calais and othe
bases from which the Nazis nigh
strike at the British Isles were re
garded as most damaging to tn
German war machine, but the bonn
bardment of the German capital wa
the most spectacular and designet
to help keep up the morale of bomb
damaged London.
The r. A. F. pilots seemed to picl
out military detectives in Berlin tina
were linked particularly with Adol
Hitler or the Nazi regime and to div
boldly through a heavy ground bar
rage to unload heavy bombs.
A communique said that the An
halter railroad station, used fire.
quently by Adolf Hitler, in down
town Berlin. had been bombed.
Also, the ministry said, RAJ
planes had bombed an anti-aircraf
battery in the Berlin Tiergarten, {