DEATHS & DAMAGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1940, Page 5

DEATHS & DAMAGE

FURTHER GERMAN RAIDS ON BRITAIN MANY PEOPLE LEFT HOMELESS. ACCOMMODATED IN PUBLIC HALLS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, July 3. It is officially stated that 12 persons were killed and .123 injured last evening in daylight raids on towns on the north-east, coast. Ten were killed and 110 injured in a raid on one town in north-east England, and so many people were left homeless that public halls were opened to accommodate them. Another report states that in this town five streets were affected. At least six houses were destroyed and several others were seriously damaged. The victims include the father, mother and child in one family. ENEMY LOSSES FIVE BOMBERS SHOT DOWN. FOUR OTHERS DAMAGED. German aircraft have again raided Great Britain in daylight, a Daventry broadcast states. Five German bombers were shot down and four more damaged. One of those destroyed was brought down early yesterday morning off the East Coast. Since then raids have occurred at many points. An Air Ministry communique states that bombs were dropped on the north-east coasts of England and Scotland. About 16 people were injured. In raids on the East Coast and south-west England, two people were killed and about six injured in Suffolk. The latest report of Tuesday evening’s raid on the north-cast coast shows that 13 were killed and 120 injured, most of them not seriously. These casualties occurred in the residential areas of three Tyneside towns. BRITISH REPLY MANY ATTACKS ON ENEMY TERRITORY. An Air Ministry communique states that on Tuesday night planes of the bomber command attacked aerodromes in Denmark and Belgium and communications and other military objectives in Germany, Daventry reports. All the machines returned. Aircraft of the Coastal Command yesterday bombed enemy bases 'in Holland and shot down an enemy fighter without loss. A British machine failed to return from reconnaissance. RAIDS EXTENDED TWO ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN, DETAILS OF CASUALTIES. (Received This ay, 10.34 a.m.) ' LONDON, July 3. It is officially stated that several enemy planes crossed the south coast this morning and dropped bombs. Bombs were dropped at several points in England and Scotland this afternoon. Two persons were killed and 22 injured. Two bombers were shot down. A bomb on a south-east coast town hit a cottage and killed a baby. The grandmother of the baby, who was asleep, was blown out of the cottage thirty yards across the street. Another bomb set fire to a store, but the shoppers and staff are believed to have escaped. Three bombs were dropped in northeastern England and injured several workmen. Bombs dropped by planes which crossed the South Coast this morning were few in number and do not appear to have been directed upon any particular objective. As far as is known, two persons were injured. The bombs fell on a town. An enemy plane flew low over the town before it disappeared out to sea. People saw bombs released. One exploded in a garden, smashing the front of a house, and two others crashed on to an adjoining roadway. An incendiary bomb set fire to a building. Other bombs fell into the sea and cn open country. An enemy plane mach-ine-gunned soldiers on a beach. The death roll from Monday's raid in the north-east of Scotland has reached fifteen, with the deaths of three persons last night.