A predominantly Jewish quarter of London suffered heavily in the latest Nazi air raids, it was made known today. Many Jews were killed and scores of shops and houses destroyed by high explosives and incendiaries.
A bitterly-weeping crowd yesterday attended memorial services for persons entombed in the destruction of a clubhouse during an air raid. The service was held in a synagogue adjacent to the club which, miraculously, was untouched.
A large number of persons. including children and German refugees, who had been sheltered in the club were feared killed and their bodies buried in the debris. The club was 40 years old. (The club, whose name was not given in the cable, presumably for reasons of military censorship, apparently was hit in the air raid on London on Wednesday night.)
Although it was Passover, several thousand persons were trying to salvage their possessions from wrecked and burned apartment buildings. A famous market which had been hit in a previous raid was completely demolished this time. There were craters today where once stalls had stood.
Four Jewish fire-watchers were killed in one building.
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