The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-09
Delayed Action Bombs Killed More In London
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 for the blitzkrieg invasion by sea and air if they could break the British power of resistance. But there was general feeling too that London had taken it so far in its stride and that if Britons could stick it through they would beat the NaziS.
 Those who had been abroad dur ing the night knew that in some areas policemen, the "Bobbies' whc customarily carry nothing more than a night stick, were now carry ing rifles and stopping pedestrians to demand Identification papers.
 Bremen, auxiliary firemen, ail raid precaution workers and volun- teers had been on duty since dark Saturday. Few people had been hardy enough, or lucky enough, tc get enough sleep. But London was back at work today, ready for more
 Last nights raid, the longest of the war, lasted nine hours and 37 minutes, from 7:58 D. m. to 5:35 a m. today. Saturday nights raid had lasted for eight hours and 20 min- utes. There had been a church hour raid for 70 minutes starting at 1925 p. m. yesterday.
 Bombs crashed down on districts all over Central London and all its suburbs from the start of last nights raid until its end this morn ing. There was no blackout. The flames from fires started in Satur- day nights "all out" raid, and from new ones, lighted the city sufficient ly for anyone to read a newspaper in the streets throughout the night It was only this morning when the sky paled that the fires paled toe and the smoke pail over London be- came more impressive.
 Fire Engines Race Fire engines were still changing to new fires, or reinforcing firemen at old ones, as the rush hour started
 It was said in authoritative quar- terS that although casulties were probably not as high as in Saturday nights raid, in which approximate ly 400 persons were killed and 1,400 wounded, the Sunday night-Monday morning raid had been even more furious as possibly as destructive. Fewer people were killed because Sunday was non-W working day and there was more chance for people to take shelter.
 German planes droned back and forth across the city. They seemed to drop their bombs indiscriminately aiming only at terror and destruc- tion, and many bombs dropped in areas in which there was no con- ceivable military target, it was said.
 Even the newspapers were unable to function. They had a new ar rangement by which, during raids, watchers stood on rooftops and work continued until the watchers re- ported that searchlight beams were converging toward the Fleet street newspaper district.
 Last night and this morning, how ever, the bombing was so central that it was impossibel to keep pres ses going. One great bomb dropped nearby outside the offices of one leading newspaper and six dropped nearby and started fires. The staff was in shelters and there were no casualties.
 East London Fires
 At the start of the raid bomber planes concentrated on East Lon- don, starting fires which firemen and air raid wardens fought even while planes circled over them, drop- ping bombs whenever they saw a burst of flame.
 After awhile the planes started closing in on Central London despite the heaviest anti-aircraft gun fire of the entire war, bombardment so great that it rattled windows and shook buildings.
 About halfway through the raid there was a lull of about an hour, perhaps while new relays of German planes took over. The planes, when they came, were scattered all over the sky in groups of two and three instead of being concentrated as they had been in the raids Saturday night and Sunday morning.
 After the lull, bombs began to crash ceaslessly. Occasionally a plane would dive, or there would be the shock of a screamer bomb.
 Though London received the main force of the attack, the Germans attacked in strength also in south- east and northwest England and in Wales.
 Watchers on the coast saw vivid flashes across the channed during the night, indicating a big British raid on the French coast.
 The raids Saturday night and Sunday morning had cost the Ger mans 99 planes, according to official count.