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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1940, Page 5

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FOR MURDER RAIDS ON LONDON Seventy-three Enemy Planes Destroyed Yesterday REDUCTION IN BRITISH CIVILIAN CASUALTIES EIGHTEEN PERSONS KILLED AND 280 INJURED ON TUESDAY NIGHT The Germans have once again paid heavily for raids on London, a Daventry broadcast reports. Up to 7.30 p.m. yesterday the enemy had lost 73 planes. Seventeen British fighters are missing, with three of the pilots safe. As there was little enemy activity until three o ’clock yesterday afternoon, most of the 73 planes destroyed were brought down in 4| hours. It was the middle of the afternoon before any large numbers of enemy planes appeared over the London area. They were driven off but they managed to do some damage in three districts south of the River Thames. The casualties are not yet known. The casualties on Tuesday night in London revealed a striking reduction compared with those of the previous two nights, 18 persons being killed and 280 injured. Monday night’s casualties were 400 killed and 1400 injured. Most of the deaths occurred when a school in the East End collapsed under a direct hit from a bomb. The school was sheltering families whose homes had been destroyed in an earlier raid. Dover has been bombed and shelled, a few people being killed and others injured. The shelling was the fiercest so far experienced and followed an attack by German bombers. The shelling continued without interruption for several hours and latest reports show that it is still going on.