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Show Eleven Persons Killed j and Forty-six Others . I Injured. CITY SURPRISED j Many Bombs Dropped , and Several Mouses Demolished. i 1 LONDON. March 8. Eleven persons I wc killed and forty-six others -were I injured in lasL night's airplane raid on ! London, according to the latest police i reports, says an official announcement ! today It is feared that an additional ; sk bodies are in the ruins of houses ! wrecked The official report reads: ) "The latest police reports stato that i 11 were killed and 46 injured in last , night's airplane raids. It is feared : that in addition to the ahove six bod-: bod-: ies are still buried In the wreckage of houses. All the casualties occurred in i London," Several persons were killed by the i destruction of private houses in north - eastern London. The house of a vicar ; iras partly wrecked but the clergy escaped. es-caped. He is a special constable and ; had left home for duly when the warning warn-ing came a few minutes before the , explosion which damaged his resi-. resi-. dence. The vicar worked throughout : the night, assisting the wounded and homeless neighbors. ! "Last night's air raid appears to have been carried out by seven or I eight enemy airplanes, of which two i reached London. The first two raiders ; approached the Isle of Thanet at about 10:55 p. m. and proceeded up the i Thames estuary. Both were turned tack before reaching London, "in the meanwhile the third raider Vt. came across the "Essex coast at 11:20 f p.m. and steered west. At 11:45 p..m. ! it vras reported over east London. A ; for minutes later it dropped bombs on the southwestern and northwestern ; districts. At 11:50 p. m. the fourth raider, which had also come iu across j wsex, dropped bombs to the north of London and then proceeded south across the capital, dropping its remaining re-maining bombs on the northern dis-tnct dis-tnct between 12:20 and 12:30 a. m. iho remaining enemy machines, all of t pich camo across the Essex coast. ! ere turned back before thev reached loadon, ,cerlam amount of damage was caused to residential property in London. Lon-don. Several houses havo been damaged, dam-aged, "The raid demonstrated that Ger-i Ger-i !" aviators no longer depend upon moonlight, it was the first time the Tn?y had attempted a nighC raid over JJMoa when there was no moon. The j Mm,ero out- however, and there j hv .. . wlnd- Londoners were taken 1 ToS rprIso whcn th0 warning signals UlSr, S0Uded- Theaters were just . ed 5 The streel were soon clear- , arnin to avoid danger from 1 te?ffi? was generally heeded, every-V every-V hi . ? covcr-. or a lime the gun-. gun-. was heavy." llDfliMire.atest d!mage in London was hZl t n Jhe northwestern section hwiB?c Anbombs demolished several 1ln ihiV j? ! . dainage and casualties 'Parallel ullct Avas conQcd to two altlloueh ns usual windows tlSq !e? for a radius ot several ' lhk area S ra,der appeared over 'jafedtred? of nersons were Just pre-WS pre-WS M ?uesert their homes most- of ttoto S hree stoiy buildings, for the 1 'Istial shelter of two near- i fin to Hii Ubes vrhen tne bombs b- ITelHn?"1 bomb made a square hit concrSh n ,a thrce stor' dwelling of 'io floor?"? ,brlck1 crashln& through eforo 11 exPloded. While ftttee! r special constables and vol-Uore vol-Uore hn Ucrs wcro bus' there three Won vfeI1 nearby in luick auc-HaDdrmiro-.vmbu,ances arrived speedily ' tacunrV 8tandins the confusion, the i'anthfr,l?r,ked effectively under the ""teg in V, barraee- For twenty min- He bar?, be bombing of this district farrago was continued. |