The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-17
Exclusive Streets In
 London Hit By Bombs
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residences of Britain's wealthiest and social elite.
 Some Stores Closed Some West End stores whose names around the world are by- words of luxury were partly or completely closed due to bomb dam- age. Others, their plate glass win- dows shattered, were "open for bus mess as usual"
 Both residential and business streets were carpeted in places with shattered glass.
 Where possible, shops were car- rying on. The manager of one fa- nous jewelry establishment said:
 Its business as usual until the building goes. We've all got our i tails well up. We are ready for customers now and at all times. Let Hitler know there will always be an England"
 The badly damaged areas were lo- cated, for the most part, between Picadilly Circus-London's Broad way and And Street-and Hyde Park and north of St. James and Green Park where Buckingham Palace. and St. James Palace are located.
 Richest Area in World.
 It is one of the richest areas in the world. Picadilly is a famous shopping street. So is Bond street, home of fine tailors and fashionable haberdashery establishments. Park Lane, running along one edge of Hyde Park, is the location of famous hotels and apartments.
 Berkeley Square, once London's s most fashionable residence square, was strewn with glass. Office and apartment buildings s-tall for Lon. don-line two sides of the square. Virtually every window in these buildings was shattered.
 Air raid alarms continued today despite apparent diminishing of the threat for invasion.
 The weather over the English Channel was stormy. A southwest gale howled through the narrow straits, the most severe, it was said, since last winter. The water was topped with white caps and the surf pounded heavily on the beaches and rattled doors and windows of sea- side homes and buildings. Fog limit ed visibility to mile or so, al- though the sun broke through the clouds occasionally and the wind | fAx a,-A hA fI1r
 No Let Up of Bombs In more than A hours there had been no period of more than two hours and 38 minutes without an air raid. There had been eight alarms, the longest one of 614 hours, one which left London newly it- tered with debris. This long raid ended at 2:40 a. m. today (9:4O D. m. Monday EDT). There was a new alarm period of 38 minutes at $50 a. m., second of 47 minutes at eight, at the beginning of the morning rush hour, a third at 9:1O. (4:10 a. m. EDT).
 An air and home security min istries joint communique on over- night raids said they had been spread throughout the country, but had been concentrated mainly in London.
 Bomb were dropped on many parts of London and surrounding suburbs" the communique said. "A large number of fires were caused butt hey were speedily put out or controlled. Damage was done to houses and number of commercial and other buildings. Once again a hospital was struck but fortunately no casualties resulted"
 The home counties, surrounding London; the midlands and northwest town were bombed, the ministries sasid, and there was damage and some casualties in midlands and northwestern towns. Bombs dropped in South Wales, mostly in country districts, did slight damage on one town. Several northeast districts were bombed, the ministries said, but in general damage was small. Casualties Light
 "On the whole casualties do not appear to have been very heavy" the communique asid.
 The communique said that a bar rage balloon destroyed a bomber plane late last night and that six bombers were destroyed by anti-air- craft gun during the night.
 There seemed little force in the early daylight raids on the London area and in at least one alarm period no gun fire nor planes were heard. The third alarm period of the morning ended at i0:02 Q. m.
 It was c cloudy morning. after a night in, which the Germans had bombed flirIousy with missiles of all sorts.
 Unexplosled Bombs
 Scores of unexploded bombs scat. tered through the capital caused DO. llce to rope off tFeeis in which there vas the threat of explosions.
 The main attack came during afl alarm perlod which lasted from e:i0 last night until 2:40 a. m. today ] tGilo D, m. Monday EpTl.