MINERS’ HOUSES BOMBED
NAZI RAIDERS OVER ENGLAND London, Aug. 29. When enemy raiders last night scored direct hits on miners’ houses in a north-east England village five women, two children and one man were killed and a number of children were injured. A.R.P. workers rescued a baby boy alive after digging in ruins throughout the night. An enemy plane bombed an inland town in the south of England in daylight, killing five men and one woman. It was announced by Berlin that the Luftwaffe last night bombed Sunderland and in a daylight raid on Cardiff bombs were dropped on a large munitions factory causing fires. —P.A.
Yesterday morning two enemy aircraft dropped bombs on Bristol. A number of casualties, including some fatal ones, are reported, and some damage was done. An Melo9 was shot down by our fighters into the sea off the sputh-west coast of England yesterday morning. A number of passengers were killed and injured when two enemy planes dropped bombs near three buses in Bristol. The buses crumpled up and burst into flames. The German High Command states that the Luftwaffe on Thursday night bombed military targets in Leeds, Hull, towns in East England, and Folkestone. —P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 31 August 1942, Page 5
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