WALL OF FLAME
NAZIS AGAIN RAID PLYMOUTH HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE FEARED. HOUSES & OTHER BUILDINGS WRECKED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, April 23. Waves of German planes raided Plymouth for several hours last night. It is feared that many people were killed. The town was a lurid wall of flame and smoke as high_explosives, incendiaries and parachute flares descended, wrecking homes, hospitals and churches. Members of the A.R.P., despite the inferno of explosions and flames, worked unceasingly to release persons trapped and to rescue the belongings of the homeless. Special convoys of food and necessities poured into the town in the early morning. The German News Agency states that Portsmouth was attacked in addition to Plymouth. DAYLIGHT LULL LITTLE ENEMY ACTIVITY. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) RUGBY, April 23. An Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security communique states: “There has'been some enemy activity during daylight today, mainly near the East Coast. A few bombs were dropped. but very little damage and no casualties are reported.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1941, Page 6
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