Evening star., 1940-10-12
Hotel in Liverpool
Is Razed by Bomb;
Big Guns Active
Unknown Number of Dead
Buried in Wreekoge;
London Has 5 Raids
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ern, Northeastern and Southern
England.
Casualties were described as
light" in London, and very light"
elsewhere
A London church was wrecked
and Y. M. C. A. property, furniture
warehouse and a hotel were dam
aged.
In ALL three buses were wrecked
by the explosion. One was smashed
and the wreckage hurled against
two others and shop window The
number killed and injured was not
disclosed.
In another section bombs
crumbled several homes and from
the wreokage four injured members
Of family were dug by neighbors.
Some persons who fingered in the
darkened streets were killed.
Three British fighting planes pur-
sued a group of Dornier bombers
which attacked Liverpool. Three of
the raiders were reported shot down.
The British reported five other
German planes destroyed and nine
British planes lost. Six of the Brit
ish pilots were said to have been
saved.
A heavy bomb dropped in recent
raid smashed into the building of
the London Times. which won the
praise of Prime Minister Churchill
for carrying on its editions with
out interruption despite severe dam
age.
Canterbury Cathedral Damaged.
Canterbury Cathedral, by whose
altar Thomas a Beckett was slain
1863 years ago, was damaged slightly
in an air raid yesterday. Some Of
its stained glass windows were
broken when a Messerschmitt plane,
diving out of the sun, unloaded
bombs which hit nearby row Of
houses, it was announced.
Two persons were killed and a
number were injured.
The 18th, 18th, 14th and 18th
century glass had been removed
from the windows, leaving mainly
that of the early 10Th century. A
number of small panes of the lat
ter were shattered today. These
can be replaced.
The cathedral was structurally
undamaged and unmarked by bomb
fragments or flying debris, officials
said.
Canterbury, seat of the Arch
bishop of Canterbury, the primate
of all England, is 40 miles south
east of London.
1t was at this church, on Decem-
ber 90, ITO, that the knights of
Henry II and their armed fol-
lowing slashed to death Thomas
a'Becket, then Archbishop of Can
terbury and foe of the King in a
long quarrel over powers of the
church and the state.
Nazi Aviator Captured.
A German aviator who jumped by
parachute from his damaged plane
was captured by police and towns
folk who searched through the
night in the mountains of Wales.
His plane crashed, riddled by Brit
ish bullets.
During the first daylight raid
most Londoners saw no planes,
though the distant sound of air.
planes and gunfire was heard.
Planes were heard directly overhead
in the second attack.
German planes were said to have
withdrawn after fierce air battles
with British fighter squadrons 10000
feet over the Southeast Coast.
All advanced British airfieldS in
the Channel area bombed by the
Germans are still in use, British
news agencies reported.
Reuters. Press Association and Ex-
change Telegraph correspondents
''in the British front line" said these
airfelds are operating and declared
the Germans had failed to inf1ict
any serious military damage in
cross-Channel shelling and bombing.
They assured Britons that the
r. A. F. is giving German soldiers
a dose of their own medicine"
Debris to Be Cleared.
Five thousand members of the
Pioneer Corps military labor and
"a large number of unemployed"
will be put to work Monday clearing
the debris from bombed London.
Five hundred of the Pioneer Corps
are being sent to Middlesex and
Essex Counties to start the work
there, a government announcement
said today, and the rest will begin
in Eastern and Southern London,
where bombings have been heavy.
Five hundred trucks and II big
American-made cranes will be
turned over to the workers.
Good bricks and building material
which can be used again will be sal
vaged from the debris The plan is
to use the material for rebuilding
damaged dwellings Lumber would
be made into hunks for afraid
shelters.
The rest of the debris would be
carted away to the Essex marshes.