Evening star., 1940-08-26

age of the latest Nazi blows at this
center of empire-one shortly before
midnight and one shortly after
two morning papers supported the
reprisal campaign.
The Daily Mail announced 46 per
cent of its mail contained readers
Bomb Berlin" suggestions while the
tabloid Daily Mirror featured a car
toon of bomb bearing tag labeled
To Berlin
But three other influential pa
pers-the Times, Daily Express and
Daily Observation-Disclosures the r.
A. F. should hew to the line of at
tacks on Nazi military objectives.
OF the two weekend series of
night attacks on London, those of
Saturday and Sunday appeared to
have been the more severe. Several
hundred bombs were dropped and
caused at least two large fires, in the
! financial and the warehouse dis
trlcts. Sections of the city were
roped off.
! One bomb on the outskirts blasted
a huge crater only 300 yards from
the home of United States Ambas-
sador Joseph P. Kennedy.
The high explosive, incendiary
and scream bombs dropped last
night and early this morning caused
only small fires and damage to
property" in "the outskirts of the
London area" the government an
! nounced
Two Policemen Killed.
However, two policemen were be-
lieved killed during the second raid
by bomb which burst in a narrow
roadway Four bombs loosed by a
lone night raider in a residential
area shattered the windows of a
parish church.
Raiding planes dropped flares to
light up their targets and then
loosed their bombs.
BrltalnS air war rehabilitation
listed 1,175 German raiders brought
down since the start of the war:
1.101 since June 18, when the direct
attack on England was begun, and
more than 800 since August 8, first
day of the mass attacks.
| London was only one of the NaZi
targets yesterday. The days largest
air battles occurred near the coast
OF Dorset, the area which includes
the naval base of Portland There
the Nazis launched two attacks, the
first of which the British said re-
suited in defeat for the main at
tacking body, when "a of an esti-
mated 130 Nazi aircraft were shot
down and others were damaged Sc
verely. This foray and the subse-
quent one, in which "at least" three
raiders were destroyed, apparently
were aimed inland.
Bomb Kills Several.
There were violent explosions and
fierce anti-aircraft fire in Northeast
England, where a single. raiders
bombs killed several persons in one
town. Other attacks were reported
in the south, the industrial Mid
lands and in Scotland.
In a southeast town 25 pumping
machines were needed to tight fires
started by incendiary bombs which
fell on a school, brewery and a
lumber yard.
Portsmouth, which, together with
Dover and Ramsgate, suffered ex-
tensive damage Saturday night, felt
the after-effects yesterday, when
explosion of a number of delayed
action bombs forced officials to rope
of various parts of the city.
On the economic front Ronald
Cross, minister of shipping, an
nounced Britain would embark
upon the second year of war with
shipping resources under the British
flag undiminished" through addition
of "just over 100000 tons" to the
merchant fleet to Offset first-year
losses of slightly less than 100000
tons.
Mr.. Cross said "4,500,000 million
tons of imports in a single month
(July) of intense enemy attack both
by sea and by air leaves me very
we'll satisfied" and declared that
during July 25 per cent more ship
ping left British ports with cargoes
for America than in any month "in
the more peaceful" January to April
period.
London Raid Described,
A Briton residing in a section of
London bombed early this morning
described the raid as follows:
Il heard distant drone of q
plane but assumed it was some miles
away and did not take much notice
Suddenly there was series OF
ear-splitting explosions.
"All the bombs we're dropped in
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