Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-16
City Has a Alarms;
Less Firing Heard;
Berlin Is Bombed
BY the Associs ted Press.


LONDON. Sept. 16.-Air raid
alarms kept London's millions in
shelters for hours today as German
planes threatened the city three
times during the morning and re-
turned in the afternoon to drop
bombs and battle British pilots dur
ing one of London's longest daylight
alarms of the war.
Altogether, the people Of London
were under warning 5 hours and
43 minutes, from mid-morning until
near dusk.
Three alarms lasted a total of
hour and 81 minutes in the
morning, and then the afternoon
raid. starting at 2:10 o'clock, con-
tinued until $50
Despite the almost continuous at
tacks. only moderate anti-aircraft
activity in the London area greeted
the raiders, and only occasional
bombs were heard to fall during the
afternoon raid. Little happened in
the three morning attacks.
Macliine-gun fire and the thunder
of motors, however, told of short,
brief battle over the London area
at the start of the fourth raid.
Mixed with the sounds of aerial
warfare was the occasional burst of
time bombs dropped in previous
raids. Two of these exploded in
Southeast London in little over an
hour. One demolished some small
houses and broke gas main. The
other tore away the rear of a Cath
Ollie school,
Berlin Bombed Again.
Military detectives in Berlin again
were bombed by the Royal Air Force
last night during widespread raids
on enemy territory covering the
German, French, Dutch and Bel
gian coasts. the Air Ministry re-
ported tonight.
British bombers scored a direct
hit on a German warship at Ter
schilling, off the Dutch coast, the
ministry said.
Salvos of long range artillery
shells plunged into the streets of
Dover, the invasion corner" iujur-
ing II persons. The Germans
opened fire in reply to a British
bombardment.
The Press Association reported
that single bomber dived from
the clouds over one residential dis
trict and dropped its load. A mother
was reported killed when her home,
one of three hit, was shattered. Her
three children were treated for
shock at a hospital.
Authoritative quarters, meanwhile,
said they believed Adolf Hitler's
plans for an invasion, possibly this
week, had been seriously inpeded
by the cumulative effect of intense
nightly bombing of barge concentra-
tons, ships, docks, oil supplies and
other transport facilities at all his
jumping-of places on the CONT
mental coast
Crowded Streets Shelled.
The big German shells fell in
Dover streets crowded with shoppers
as correspondents continued to re-
port movements Of many German
troop carriers, Of all shapes and
sizes, close along the French and
Belgian coasts under cover of night
and mists.
For the first time in weeks, heavy
rainfall partly shrouded the act,vi-
ties at Hitler's bases across the
Channel.
Veteran seamen hoped a stiff
nor easter soon would pile up high
waves on the French coast which
would make impossible any imme-
diate thrust across the narrow
waters
Alarms of 35, 40 and Al minutes
were sounded here at 9:57 am,
1885 am. and 1909 pm.
During the first alarm. a large
formation of bombers was encoun-
tered inland by British fighters,
who turned it back.
There was anti-aircraft activity in
London during the third alarm, but
the hundreds of batteries were silent
throughout the second.
Mass Raids Yesterday.
These thrusts followed a nine
and-a-half- hour night attack and
series of Sunday mass raids in
which the British claimed their
greatest air victory Of any single
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