Show i luSH BOMB BOMBI I UNDERSEA AlDERS AlDERS' NESI r deaux Suffers J Kivy avy B Blows Dock Sections DON Dec 9 AP AP- AP tI bomber omber pilots reported I t that at they had smashed est t of German 1st t i prowl the Atlantic to shipping and had eg many high explosive 3 near near if not actually moored in Inear r of f Bordeaux Bordeaux a tack was out in inIce ince inice ice ce of heavy anti-aircraft anti day night the air min min- w reported Monday British however wever vever said they believed lad ad hit lock gates at the held m-held held of Frances France's port estern coast coas and had hadd d other heavy bombs r warehouses railway sid- sid r petties with good effect its Bordeaux r ministry news service yf I great fire was started between two of dock basins day for fori i ched into the dark- dark night past tIe the usual for fortnight r- r night raiders to to ap- ap Kind and gave the capital an- an I ap-I respite spite after the severe severe ring which Sunday night ed eda a hour 44 lull luU for the second time since Ifor the German air siege unto nto total inactivity inactivity inactivity-fol- fol- fol he raids Sunday night W Monday in which Ger- Ger concentrated their theiron i at-i on ri London swelling its toll laities and ruin jere in England save for surrounding London 1 as s been unbroken since j of the air and ministries late aid merely There is 0 report ion tori had been kept under gore ore than 12 hours for a predawn lull when piled oIled in in the huge city was wasy ore I y iy explosions and lighted nd shell bursts from eve- eve 1 I 1 early m t a believed the number of ofin ofin in London was not heavy to the intensity of aid but property dam- dam widespread through the theo o oman Itan area Hospitals were hit it was morning 5 were were many casualties he staff and patients of 1 uch iTh ch received a direct hit the hospitals struck was wasS S general hospital another for women l sectIon of London where Continued on Page Pa Five f Column Six BRITISH SMASH AT U-BOAT U NEST Continued from Page One fires flamed over a wide area a resident said It seemed as if it were raining incendiary bombs by the hundred While some fires still were burning burning burning burn burn- ing bombs were dropped by succeeding succeeding succeeding suc suc- raiders who came in what one observer said were endless waves Ambulance Station Hit lilt Explosions damaged a Catholic church and an ambulance station Considerable damage was reported report report- ed done to dwellings shops and business buildings East of London near the Thames river estuary a number of persons persons persons per per- sons were feared trapped in an air raid shelter by a bomb hit near by A government said bombs fell in many districts between between between be be- tween the south and east coasts and London along the route the bombers took to reach the capital The attack ended 44 hours of quiet London's longest respite from bombings since the air siege began The biggest fire British fliers have seen during the war was I reported started in the bombing of described by a com com- as having been as destructive destructive destructive tive as the night all-night attack on the same city last Wednesday The London raid was described as a mass attack but attack but not area bombing concentrated on any specific specific specific section of London At times so many planes were over the city that the drone of their motors rose to a roar that could be heard above the almost incessant crash of the antiaircraft barrage Firemen were kept busy all night long working while the bombs still fell Once the raiders flew in parallel paral paral- lel lines across the city dropping long rows of fire bombs |