Evening star., 1940-10-21


capital tonight after earlier spo-
fadic firing, The barrage sig
4 nailed the return of the Nazl
raiders to the city after a day
devoted largely to scattered hit
ar1d-run attacks.
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. Oct. 21-Windows were
smashed in the United States big
new Embassy Building on Grosvenor
square in a recent Nazi air raid,
but the red-brick, white-trimmed
Colonial structure was not badly
damaged. No member of the staff
was injured.
Permission was given today by
British censors to tell about it.
A German plane laid stick OF
bombs across the big square in Lon
don's fashionable West End. One
demolished a house. damaged two
others across the square and blew
In a few windows of the Embassy.
Another bomb failed to explode
Immediately. but dug itself a deep
pit about so feet from the front
door. 1t went off a few hours later,
blasted more windows and hurled
soil and stones onto the roof and
against the front wall.
The inside was not damaged and
a spokesman said today We're still
open for business
Ten persons were killed in the
same raid when a big German bomb
crashed near the Y. M. c. A. head
quarters in Great Russell Street,
blasting out doors and windows and
blowing down inside partitions. Be
tween 400 and 500 members sheltered
In the gymnasium were not hurt.
Although the OUTSIDE walls were
not badly dame ced, officials said
thev would not be able to use the
building again until after the war.
Scattered Air Attacks.
Nazi air raiders, roaring across the
coast above an unusually heavy anti
aircraft barrage, famed out today
in scattered hit-and-run attacks on
Britain.
Alarms sounded twice in London
before midafternoon Two bombs fel.
on the capital just before the sirens
shrieked the first time and the throb
OF the invaders motors was heard
during the second alert.
The all-clear signal announced
the end of the second raid about
midafternoon.
In the first raid, the Germans
again sent over fast. single-engined
planes to run the British anti-air-
craft fire in ones and tWos
At times. the barrage was as heavy
as during some of the biggest night
raids. British batteries thundered
alcng the Thames estuary, trying to
pick off invading planes lodging low
to take cover among clouds on that
aerial highway to London.
Water Main Broken.
Anti-aircraft fire bagged one
raider a few miles from Ipswich,
near the coast north of the mouth
of the Thames, the Press Associa-
ton reported. 1t said the crew
bailed out.
Three bombs fell in the London
area early in the afternoon. damag-
ing some dwellings and breaking
. water main.
Inhabitants of one northwest in
land town heard anti-aircraft fire
for the first time in daylight, but
the day raiders of the Midlands
appeared primarily to be scouting,
as few bombs were dropped.
Four persons were killed when
q plane, diving out of the clouds.
dropped three bombs in the second
raid on one northern town in 36
hours.
Liverpool Britains chief west
daylight raiders.
Ten persons were injured and one
worker was believed killed in
bombardment of a northwest town.
Five workers were killed in south
coast town when twin-engined
bomber unloaded five bombs before
fleeing from British fighter.
Big Estate Hit.
Bombs struck also on large
residential estate near a public park
In an outlying London area. One
house was destroyed and three per-
sons injured.
Some casualties also were caused
In southwest coast town by twin
engined bomber which sWooped
down from the clouds and dropped
two bombs as the British ARCHES"
blazed at it.
Driven off once by anti-aircraft
fire during the second alarm in Lon
don, one Nazi plane circled over
the area for several minutes and
then came back again. Crowds
In the streets watched shells burst
ing around it.
British fighters were reported to
have shot down second German
plane this afternoon near New
Milton, in Hampshire, with all four
(see LONDON, Page A-4)