MARSEILLES RAID
PEOPLE ON BRITISH SHIP KILLED OR WOUNDED GERMAN DEMONSTRATION TO IMPRESS DUCE. CASUALTIES IN LYONS DISTRICT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, June 2. The Associated Press of America Paris correspondent says several persons aboard a British vessel are reported to have been killed or wounded when Germans bombed Marseilles. Some observers express the opinion that the raid was staged for the benefit of Signor Mussolini, as a demonstration of German air power. The Lyons district was again bombed this morning and there were several civilian casualties.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1940, Page 5
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