Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-23
London
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not come again since Sunday.
The raid on London, which had
hundreds of thousands of the city S
nearly 100000 inhabitants in air
raid shelters from 3:15 until am,
appeared to be centered on the
western outskirts, but the invading
planes could be seen plainly by
roof-top watchers in Central London
as they were picked out by search
lights.
In the attacked area, direct hit
demolished an empty motion picture
theater and an adjoining hall A
second motion picture theater, also
empty, a bank and a number Of
houses were badly damaged. An
other bomb started fire In an
other section, high explosive and
incendiary bombs fell on the edge of
a wood, starting a fire which was
controlled quickly.
A government communique said
there was only "a small number of
casualties but it was known two
of the wounded had died.
Observers said the German planes
came over the city in fairly large
numbers" but the attack lasted only
a short time. The thunder of burst
ing bombs could be heard plainly by
spectators in London's west end who
choose to watch the searchlight
beams play on the raiders and see
the oranges of exploding anti
aircraft shells break beside the at
tackers, rather than hide in air
shelters.
Bomb Misses Apartments.
One bomb barely missed an apart
ment building, which was full.
There were 200 persons still asleep
In the apartment building, but none
was hurt. Two women, awakened
ne1ghborhood movie theater, found
themselves blanketed by sharp frag-
ments of splintered glass from a
window above their bee.
The bomb had struck the boiler
house on the movie. demolishing the
theater and an adjoining dance hall.
The front entrance and the balcony
of the theater alone were left stand
ing. The boiler was draped in
grotesque shapes over the orchestra
seats, while the silvered screen,
which had reflected many newsreel
images of war scenes around the
world swayed in tattered strips.
Some suburban streets were closed
off this morning as the debris was
being cleared away, and the ruins
were searched for possible addition
al casualties.
In one suburb, where three bombs
fell between a movie theater and a
bank across the street, the windows
of stores and houses were shattered
for 100 yards.
Dover Houses Smashed.
More damaging was the Smelling
of Dover and the nearby coast by
Germany's new long-range guns
placed along the coast of German
occupied France.
The big guns, planted along 30
miles of coast from Calais, to Bou-
logne, concentrated their attack on
Dover itself, smashing homes and
other buildings and taking un-
counted toll of lives.
High explosive shells burst over
q wide coastal area around Dover
The attack came in two sessions, the
first about dusk. AS late as mid
night Dover residents were fleeing
their homes with bedding to spend
the night in safer places.
The British replied with dive
bomber attacks. the big planes
crossing the Channel during both
bombardments and aiming their
bombs at the bursts of fire belched
by the enemy artillery.
The battle was spectacular, with
an estimated so or more shells
screaming across the Channel at the
height of one attack and with the
boom of British bombs heard burst
ing on the German side, from 20
to 80 miles away.
These German guns were the
ones brought into their first big
action yesterday morning, when
their shells burst all around Brit
ish convey in the Channel. A
communicate said no ships were hit.
Bombs in Other Sections.
The government announced that
in last nights raids, in addition to
the attack on the outskirts of Lon
don, bombs were dropped "in q
number of areas in South Wales, y
on a town in East Scotland, on two
towns in Northeast England and on
two towns in Southeast England.
"A number of fatal injuries have
been reported" communique said.
The raid on the outskirts of Lon
dom was the third of the war on
Greater London, the first being a
week ago yesterday, when Croydon
Airdrome and the eastern dock area
were attacked, and the second on