Evening star., 1940-09-14
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believed killed when the bomb struck
q hotel.
The Air Ministry communicue on
the R. A. F. raids said:
Strong forces of bombers attacked
enemy shipping and harbors and
docks on the French and Belgian
coasts last night Concentrations
of barges were wrecked and dock
installations set on fire at Boulogne.
Calais, Dunkerque, Ostend and
Antwerp.
During yesterday barges moored
In the river at Ijsselmond near Rot
terdam were bombed A DAYLIGHT
attack was also made on a CONVOY
of tankers off the mole at Zee
brugge tBelgiumD in which one ship
exploded after a direct hit Two of
our aircraft were lost. Two enemy
bombers have been shot down by our
fighters.
Observers at Dover saw repeated
flashes Of anti-aircraft fire rising
early today from the German
occupied French coast indicating
renewed British attack on Nazi
artillery emplacements.
In the vicinity Of Cap Girls Nez,
from which German guns have
shelled the Dover area, the firing
appeared particularly intense, and
watchers reported a brilliant pillar
OF flame shot high into the air.
Casualty List Grows.
While the British Transport Min
istry appealed to London motorists
to keep private automobiles out of
the central part of the city in order
to maintain freedom of movement on
the roads" the Air Ministry carried
forward the growing list of London
casualties.
Wednesday nights raids killed ll0
persons and injured 260, it was an
nounced, bringing the totals from
last Saturday through Wednesday to
1,245 dead and 481O injured.
The toll Thursday night was with
held although communique said
1t was mot heavy Fridays dead
likewise were not yet counted, but
the list was said to be extensive
after the longest daylight raid of
the war; hours and 9 minutes
during which Buckingham Palace,
Downing Street and Whitehall.
where most Of the government
business is transacted, were hit.
South Africa House, headquarters
of the Union of South Africa in
London. and the historic law courts
nights German air raid, the Min
istry of Information announced
A corps of 100 workmen was busy
today repairing the damage wrought
by yesterdays attack on the palace
Still another landed against the
south wall of the quadrangle-an
open courtyard in the center of the
palace-and wrecked gas and water
mains and destroyed some rich fur
nishings.
A crater Is feet deep was left in
the quadrangle and debris ripped
through. windows in all four of the
gray stone walls.
Two bombs buried themselves in
the spacious garden which borders
the palace on three sides, tearing
up the grass turf. Two other bombs
One of them the time explosive
which went off today-landed just
outside the palace gates in a road
way.
Sidewalk Ripped Up.
The delayed action missile, which
had been covered with sandbags,
ripped up a sidewalk and destroyed
about flve yards of the great wrought
iron fence outside which royal SEN
tries stand guard.
A third bomb crashing down out
side the grounds sent a shower of
cement fragments and mud from
the roadway over the majestic statue
Of Queen Victoria, which stands in
st. James Park. Great lobs of mud
were plastered over the statue.
A broken main sent up fountain