“NUISANCE” RAIDERS.
WEST END STORES SUFFER. LONDON, Sept. 17. Isolated ;‘ nu j^f in Tondon before three daylight alaims heavy 10 a.lll. on' T rained anti-aircraft fare a ““ rt vehicles on the roofs of tia ? sp N the c i ty . carrying business t Peopl de rtm ental Two big , VVest Af. „i so a subway, stores were damag , ndon suburb Several houses mf 1 „i 100 i damaged, were' demolished and , j bombs incendiary and l^-explo^. were dropped “’west England town, town and a no l th-west ° u f fere d its The nortli-westei w ben a number heaviest casualties ye . e dur i ng of bombers attacked , « - the night. A Plane shelter. men and children binr j o aU xiliary A number of policemen a®? a firemen were lulled or >»J u h ea y b °The Berlin News A p"^ ev 3ting that bombers, carried out < , ts on attack on London supply d ° p °g sion Tuesday and caused a.sei . g p t fire at Croydon aerodrome. - W ar to many factories engage>« " jr . work on the Thames Estuary a s ectly hit anti-aircrMt batto es. beside^ heavily damaging the An fa Rolls-Royce works at Birm k - lbe . the course of the night of 16 the R.A.F. bombed worlki 6 quarters in Antwerp, lulin „ ’ +] ipr damaged several farmhouse re _ parts of Belgium, added the &{ port. On Tuesday night a p + ra te single British planes tried to P Germany at a great height. Geiman fighters attacked, bringing d and forcing the others to ret .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 250, 19 September 1940, Page 9
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256“NUISANCE” RAIDERS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 250, 19 September 1940, Page 9
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