Irish Town Accidentally Bombarded
SHELLS FROM FLEET DAMAGE HOUSES Received Wednesday, 9.30 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 3. Five houses were damaged and several people narrowly escaped death during the accidental bombardment from the sea off Bangor, County Down. A shell penetrated a house in which three children were sitting on the couch and flung the couch endways. A second shell wrecked a perambulator in the next door garden from which a child had just been previously removed. Another struck a garage and damaged some cars. The Admiralty stated that when the fleet auxiliary was at practice during its entrance to Belfast Lough shells fell on Bangor. Nobody was injured, but some houses and buildings were damaged.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 3, 4 January 1940, Page 7
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