AIR MINISTRY REPORT
ENEMY PLANES OPERATE SINGLY. LONDON. January 10. An Air Ministry communique says that there was considerable enemy activity over Britain last night. Bombs were dropped over widely separated districts in England and Wales, including Merseyside, north-west England, the Midlands and the London area.
Houses and shops were damaged. A number of fires were shirted, but they were promptly dealt with. The casualties were nowhere large. Unofficial reports state that one of the raiders was shot down by rm R.A.F. night tighter. These reports also say that the enemy operated singly. NAZI REPORT ALLEGED FAILURE OF BRITISH RAIDS. BERLIN. January io -Officials admitted that Hie R.A.F made a large-scale raid last night against industrial and supply centres in western Germany but claimed that only a few machines reached their objectives, most of the bombs falling in open country. RAID VICTIMS PEOPLE KILLED IN LONDON AND ELSEWHERE. DAMAGE IN MANY AREAS t < Received This Dav. <) m i LONDON. January An anti-aircraft shell fell on Rupert Street, in the West End, last night and two persons were killed. The shell landed almost opposite the Queen's Theatre, which was wrecked in a recent raid, A heavy bomb fell near a shelter in the London area, when 1000 people were preparing their bunks. The sheltcrers comforted frightened children, helper! the injured and all cttlcd down to sleep. One person was killed anl five injured in a neighbouring budding. A policeman in a north-west '. r.vn found his own home wrecked, a daughter aged 13 killed, and his wife mid baby buried under dvbr; ■ Niiio pct Mire. re-cued fr<4» u:> ’.!•.<■ debris of a block of flair included a family previously bombed from their j home in the East End. Three per-mr-- were killed when their home in the London v.-a-. d«‘ra foiled. Five person were killed and tunny ; house’s were damaged In a i
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1941, Page 5
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