The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-12

l and wounding 13.
 The DNB report said that the British airmen dropped "a great number" of explosive bombs but claimed that most of them fell ir the residential district, destroying several dwellings" and damaging others.
 The official high command com British raid on some points in thet munique earlier had admitted 8 British raid on some points in north Germany in which property damage was caused and a few civ ilians killed and wounded.
 Enemy shipping losses from Nov 1 to March 1 totaled 2,037 900 tons of which 1924 900 tons were de- stroyed by the navy and 5l3,000 by the air force, the German high command said in Q communique today.
 The high command said that in addition the German air force had severely damaged 175 merchant ships with bomb hits.
 The figures do not include ships lost by striking mines, the com- munique said.
 Bomb Hit Near Palace
 London, March 12.-(UP)---A Ger man bomb partly destroyed a gar- den wall and porter's lodge oi Buckingham palace during Q recent air raid, 1t was made known today and six other bombs struck in the palace grounds.
 The king and queen were absent ct the time.
 Three of the bombs fell in Q palace fore court and three nearby.
 The palace itself was undamaged. But the lodge Of the keeper of the garden gate in the north wall, only Q few yards from the Royal apart ments in the palace proper, was wrecked.
 A young policeman on duty out side the palace was killed.
 Three bombs made small, almost circular holes at regular intervals along the fore court.
 It was the fourth time the pal- ace had been bombed.
 One bomb fell on Q sidewalk op- posite q south corner of the palace and two on the grass on thee dge of Constitution Hill.
 The bomb which did the most damage broke down Q wall along side the garden gate. This gate is used by the royal family and their friends. It leads to the "king's door" through which the then Mrs Simpson used to visit the Duke of Windsor when he occupied the palace as King Edward VII.
 Porter's Lodge Wrecked
 The porter's lodge was wrecked The porter, his wife and daughter were in the palace raid shelter and knew nothing of the bombing until they emerged.
 From the street 1t is now possible to see the right side of the palace formerly hidden by the wrecked wall, and the swimming pool which was wrecked in Q previous bomb- ing.
 The Palace windows, including the royal apartments on the second | and were not damaked.
 Three apparently small bombs made holes in the fore court such as are dug about the flower beds behind the sentry gates at the front of the lacale grounds. The Sentry boxes are now inside the gates instead of outside as they used to be in peace time.
 It is in the fore court that ir peace time the kings household guards regiments, in their gorgeous uniforms, mount guard.
 The policeman who was killed was not on palace duty, he ran up when he heard the bomgs falling mad was believed to have been killed by debris from the wall. Pieces of the wall smashed down iron railings or embedded themselves in a lawn
 King George and Queen Elizabeth say the damage only when they returned two days later, from a tour o fother areas which had been bombed.
 Drive Into Ethi0pia | S0AOy AsAuA O4L ANOEJ 9IiJAbll troops advancing from Italian Gom- aliland to cut the Dffibouti-Addis Ababa railroad have penetrated 250 miles Into Southeastern Ethiopia and have occupied Dagha Bur, only 120 miles south of Harrar, Q general headquarters communique said to- day.
 The British middle east command said that since crossing the Juba River in Italian Somaliland last month empire forces have inflicted losses on the enemy estimated at more than 3i.O00. Dagha Bur was occupied two days ago, the com munique said. Its possession places the British in position Co strike ct trong Italian forces in the Jigjiga and Marar areas and to cut all communications between Ethiopia