SOME CASUALTIES
AND DAMAGE TO HOUSES.
GERMAN BOMBING RAIDS ON ENGLAND. LONDON, August 9. It is officially announced that enemy planes dropped isolated bombs near the Straits of Dover, Bristol Channel and north-western England, damaging several houses. Five bombs are reported to have fallen in the residential quarters of a Midland town. One house was demolished. There were a few casualties in all these areas, including several killed and seriously injured. A Junkers attempted to bomb a warship off the south-east coast but fled when anti-aircraft guns put up a heavy barrage.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1940, Page 5
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