NIGHT BOMBING
ANOTHER MIDLANDS TOWN SUFFERS HEAVILY BRAVE WORK BY AUXILIARY SERVICES. GUNS REPEL RAIDERS ON COAST. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, November 20. Pursuing the policy of selecting one provincial town as a target and concentrating a merciless onslaught on it, German raiders tonight battered a town in the east Midlands. Wave after wave flew toward the target shortly after dusk. They were met by intensive ground fire on their way till they reached the town, where terrific explosions occurred almost every minute for hours. The only persons venturing into the streets except those made homeless, who were forced to brave the storm in a pitiable pilgrimage for shelter, were members of the Auxiliary Fire Service, who were battling with the flames, and members of the A.R.P., forcing their way through wreckage for those who had been trapped. Several other raiders received a terrific hammering from the ground as they swooped on a south-west coastal town. The barrage was so intense that the planes did not drop their bombs but scurried out to sea to elude the wall of bursting shells. POWERFUL BARRAGE ATTACKERS KEPT AT GREAT HEIGHT. LONDON GETS LESS ATTENTION THAN USUAL. LONDON, November 21. A feature of last night’s raids on Britain was the barrage of anti-air-craft fire. In the Midlands, where the attacks were less intense than on Tuesday, the raiders were hampered by the terrific ground fire. Wave after wave of enemy-bombers was compelled to maintain great height, thereby losing; some bombing accuracy. Anti-aircraft guns drove off a lone raider which visited Liverpool and Merseyside towns before it dropped any bombs. In the attack on a south-west town, when the anti-aircraft fire forced the enemy to turn away, one plane caught in searchlights rocketed from the blasts of anti-aircraft gunfire and was last seen losing height. London received less attention than usual. Enemy planes flying high over the capital were met by a heavy barrage, evidence of the accuracy of which was supplied by the manner in which the enemy climbed to greater height. There was haphazard bombing in some other districts.
Yesterday afternoon a Dornier bomber dropped 20 bombs in a residential area of a south-east town. A bomb demolished four houses in an East Anglian town and killed a man, his wife, and a child. GERMAN - REPORT (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, November 21. A German communique mentions air attacks against southern harbours in England. It adds: “British planes attacked aerodromes in west and north France. Bombs were dropped at several places in West Germany. The only hits scored were on a smelting works.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 November 1940, Page 5
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