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HEAVY CASUALTIES

ON CLYDE AND MERSEYSIDE

DURING RECENT NAZI RAIDS THOUSAND DEATHS REPORTED. More than 1000 persons' were killed by German raiders on the Clydeside and Merseyside on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, states the 8.8. C. On the Merseyside, 500 people were killed and 500 seriously injured, and on the Clydeside 500 killed and 800 seriously injured. A well-planned evacuation scheme enabled work in general to go on without loss of efficiency. LULL YESTERDAY TWO GERMAN AIRCRAFT DESTROYED. There was little enemy air activity over Britain yesterday, the 8.8. C. states. Two German aircraft were destroyed by British fighters. One wasattacked by a Spitfire protecting shipping in the English Channel, and the other was destroyed off the Norfolk coast. Two British fighters returning home with their ammunition exhausted, were shot down, but the pilots are safe. A reconnaissance bomber of the Coastal Command torpedoed and sonk a 5000-ton German supply ship off the Friesian Island. PRODUCTION OF PLANES. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Aircraft Production, told the House of Commons that during the short month of February, Britain had produced more bombers and fighters than in any previous month of the war. SKIES AGLOW ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBING IN GERMANY. R.A.F. bombers returned on Monday night to attack the docks, shipyards and industrial area of Bremen, the 8.8. C. states. Within a quarter of an hour the sky was aglow. One German plane was shot down. Wilhelmshaven, Rotterdam,, Emden hnd another place were also attacked, oil tanks at Rotterdam being bombed.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 March 1941, Page 5

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HEAVY CASUALTIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 March 1941, Page 5

HEAVY CASUALTIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 March 1941, Page 5

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