Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-09-16 | Page 1 | London's Suicide Squads Save Cathedral and Palace from Time Bombs

I I 1 ondon's Suicide Squads Save Cathedral and d Palace From Time Bombs I 1 r E Sept 16 is AP Suicide Suicide removing time bombs which held death were disclosed Monday to toive lye ive sav saved d both Buckingham palace and cathedral two of the most his his- ruT buildings gs in London from possible damage W St. St Pauls Paul's still was menaced by four I German time bombs buried in its vicinity I but a giant 1100 had been re re- re moved Two time bombs which fell feU in the Buckingham palace precincts one of them themon on the northwest wing Sunday in the third German bombardment of the royal residence have been extricated and carried carried car car- ried ned to th the edge of the palace lake The press association B British news agency said one of the bombs fell near the royal apartments crashed through a palace roof and landed in a bathroom It was moved by palace A R R. P workers police police police po po- po- po lice and soldiers I I Th The other th r fell on the fhe palace lawn Led by R. R Davies of the Royal Canadian engineers a suicide s 's icide squad trucked off the heavy bomb which for four days had threatened destruction of old centuries St St. Pauls Paul's and exploded it harmlessly in the Hackney marshes outside outside out out- side the city The blast ripped out a wide foot-wide crater T r TA A Aware ware always that the bomb might explode explode explode ex ex- ex- ex at any moment the squad worked day and and night against the h hazard zard of flaming flaming flam flam- ing gas seeping from a broken main to 1 t raise the projectile from its foot 27 pit T Twice it slipped and fell back