CIVILIAN TARGETS

Evening Star, Issue 24333, 23 October 1942, Page 4

CIVILIAN TARGETS

NAZI PLANES OVER ENGLAND (Hoc. 1T.50 dm.) LONDON, Oct. 22. Three raiders bombed a .south-east coast town early this morning - and wrecked houses and business premises. Rescue squads ting out trapped people. There were some casualties. The raiders swooped in low from the Channel, just skimming the water, with their machine guns blazing. The first bomb struck the beach and bounced over high buildings and the promenade, and then demolished a house beyond. Other bombs directly hit buildings and littered the streets with wreckage. Two daylight raiders dived fiom lor clouds, and dropped bombs on an East Anglian village, causing a numner of deaths One raider came so low that bombs were seen t,o hit a street, bounce over a row of cottages, and then fall on a workmen’s housing site, where the most casualties occurred. Nine bodies have so far been recovered, also a number of injured. ONE RAIDER SHOT DOWN (Rec. S a.m.) LONDON, October 22. One raider was shot down last night when the Luftwaffe bombed two East Midlands and one East Anglian town. The Berlin radio claimed that the Luftwaffe bombed important war installations in several towns in eastern England, and also a large - supply harbour on the east coast.