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SouthrEastern villagers saw a Molotov breadbasket fall and illuminate the district for miles. Eight separate fires' started, but were quickly extinguished. Four persons were killed and seven injured in a South-East inland town when high-explosive bombs fell in a residential area. Several bombs fell in an East Midlands town. Five persons were killed and many injured when a factory was damaged by a direct hit. After driving his sick wife to hospital through the barrage, a South London resident was buried when his home was wrecked by a bomb. A raider bombed the district after the all clear, three houses in which five persons were killed and others are still buried. ‘ , A number of houses were demolished in the East London outskirts, where a large house was burnt out by an oil bomb. A Molotov breadbasket fell in a field near a South-East London hospital containing 360 children. There were no casualties. The Germans bombed a thickly-po-pulated South-East London district this afternoon. Some casualties are reported. Today’s raids were in three phases. The anti-aircraft . defences repulsed single raiders in North-West, SouthWest and Central London.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 October 1940, Page 6
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186DISTRICT ILLUMINATED Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 October 1940, Page 6
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