RAID PERILS
HUNDRED PEOPLE ESCAPE FROM SHELTER UNDER BURNING BUILDING. EVENTS IN SOUTHAMPTON. LONDON, August 14. Over 100 persons were lucky to escape from the raid on Southampton yesterday. They were in a shelter under a building which was hit and began to burn fiercely. Nobody was hurt and all escaped by a back exit after firemen had turned hoses on the flaming debris falling round the door. Several nearby buildings were severely damaged. Eight public houses were damaged in another part of the town, some of them seriously. One shelter was partially flooded as a result of damage to a water main. The occupants ran out but were machine-gunned and they hastily returned.
From the terrific noise above the clouds it appeared that a big fight was in progress. Several Germans were shot down in the outskirts of the town. A number of houses were damaged and a gas main hit during a raid last night on a town in the north-east of Scotland, causing a fire.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 August 1940, Page 5
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