The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-20
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I this means in Surrey woods. Two cottages in Berkshire village were demolished by a bomb and a few people were killed or injured.
 NIt is known that one enemy bomber was shot down in Surrey by anti-aircraft fire during the night" Searchlight Batteries
 The rain brought back into ac- ton the searchlight batteries which had been almost idle for nights. British fighter planes joined the hunt for the Nad planes and at times anti-aircraft gun fire was furious.
 The Germans, flying low, came in by 8 new path, from the north west, in an attempt to get through the defenses. They were driven back, howver, and 1t appeared that only single flying hit and run planes got over London. Some made bomb-dives.
 A German Junker-88 bombing plane was shot down by @ British fighter near Cambridge. Four men of its crew were captured.
 In a northwest England area there were three big raids and it was feared casualties would prove severe. Numerous incendiary bombs struck working class and other resi- dential districts but fires were put out quickly.
 Cathedral Escaped
 London, Sept. 20.-(UP)-A low flying German plane came within a few score feet of wrecking the fa- nous Westminster cathedral, seat of Cardinal Hinsly. during a recent air raid on London, it was dis closed today. One of the founders of the cathedral was Pope Leo XIII.
 According to clerics the plane ap- peared to just clear the dome of the cathedral Campanile, 284 feet high. It dropped high explosive bomb, estimated at 250 pounds, in the asphalt choir boys playground within 40 yards of the main cathe- dral building and only 30 feet from Cardinal Hinsleys residence.
 Cathedral attaches were shelter ing within 8 few yards of where the bomb hit and were not injured. The explosion rocked the cathedral and created wide, deep crater. But, remarkably, not a single pane of glass in the cathedral or adja- cent buildings was broken.
 The cathedrals air raid warden, a member of its staff, said that the edifice was one of the strongest in Britain.
 Canadian Air Force
 Ottawa, Ont, Sept. 19.-(UP)- The Royal Canadian Air force will have a strength of 26,500 officers and men, including several hun- dred' trained flyers from the United States, by Oct. l, Air Minister c. G. Power disclosed at press con- ference today.
 The air ministry indicated the trained flyers from the United States were enlisting in the R. c. A. F. at the rate of nearly 200 a month, and many of them are being used to "ferry" R. c. A. F. planes to air force centers throughout Canada.
 Included in the personnel of 26,- 50O which the R. c. A. F. will have by Oct. 1 are 15,0O0 men and 1900 officers associated with the Bri- tish Commonwealth air train- ing scheme.
 Raiders In Belfast | Belfast, Ireland, Sept. 20.-CUP)- Irish Republican army raiders, armed with revolvers and sub-ma. chine guns, made series of sensa. tional raids on banks and post. offices throughout Belfast today and engaged in gun duels with police guards.
 One police sergeant, John Lynch. was wounded in the head, but shot and wounded a raider as he fell.
 Ethel avison, 8 postrlistress, and John Burns, a pedestrian. also were wounded.
 The raiders, apparently in search of funds, were believed to have seized about $10,0OO in the course of their raids.