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MORE DAYLIGHT RAIDS BOMBERS OVER LONDON (By Wireless) DAVENTRY, Sept. 18. After a night of air raids, London has already had four more daylight raids to-day. The casualties suffered in the night raids are feared to be heavier than those suffered in recent night raids. To-day a town in northeast England was visited and a large number of high explosive and incendiary bombs was dropped, causing many casualties. One German plane machine-gunned women and children as they were making their way to a shelter. Two big West End departmental stores were damaged and also a subway and several houses in a London suburb were demolished, and a school damaged. Incendiaries and high explosives were dropped in a south-west Scottish town and a town in north-west England. Twelve enemy planes were shot down yesterday. A few enemy planes bombed the Glasgow area, where slight damage was done to industrial premises. WESTMINSTER ABBEY BOMB DROPS ON LAWN (By Wireless) DAVENTRY, Sept. 18. (Received Sept. 18, at 11.30 p.m.) It has now been revealed that in a recent raid a bomb droppe_d on the lawn in front of Westminster Abbey. The bomb caused a small crater, but did no damage to the Abbey. A GERMAN CLAIM EXPLOSION AT CROYDON LONDON, Sept. 18. (Received Sept. 19, at 2 a.m.) The Berlin News Agency reported that bombers carried out a devastating attack on London supply depots on September 17 and caused a serious explosion at Croydon aerodrome. They also set fire to many war-working factories in the Thames Estuary, directly hit anti-aircraft batteries, and heavily damaged the Armstrong Rolls-Royce works at Birmingham. In the course of the night of September 16 the R.A.F. bombed Antwerp working-class quarters, killing 45 people. They damaged several farmhouses in other parts of Belgium. On the night of September 17 a number of single British planes tried to penetrate Germany at a great height, but German fighters attacked them, bringing down one and forcing the others to return.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24407, 19 September 1940, Page 8
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