FEW CASUALTIES
BUT EXTENSIVE DAMAGE
CAUSED BY RAIDERS IN MIDLANDS. WOMAN KILLED IN LONDON. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, August 26. The Midlands received intensive raids. Bombers flew over in waves, causing extensive damage, but there were few casualties. Fifty incendiary bombs fell in one district and high explosive bombs were dropped in another. A raider machine-gunner mem,bers of an auxiliary fire service when they were extinguishing a fire, while another attacked rescue workers. Bombs demolished a cinema and also damaged an industrial plant in a southeastern coastal town, which had its first experience of incendiary bombs when twenty fell in a crowded district, starting three fires. The raiders later returned, dropping ten bombs in a residential area, and demolishing two houses. Six high explosive bombs were dropped in another south-eastern town.
Incendiary bombs set woods and undergrowth blazing near a south-west town.
A woman was killed and her husband was seriously injured when a bomb hit a house in London.
A man and a girl were killed by bombs dropped on a north-eastern Scottish town.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 August 1940, Page 5
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