RAID ON HULL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 July 1941, Page 6

RAID ON HULL

HEAVIEST MADE BY GERMANS FOR LONG TIME MANY CASUALTIES OCCUR IN SHELTERS. RING OF FIRES STARTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, July 18. Hull last night received one of the heaviest attacks made by the Luftwaffe for a long time. A large number of heavy bombs damaged houses, commercial buildings, industrial premises and shops. Incendiary bombs started a ring of fires. Anti-aircraft batteries put up a powerful barrage, but were unable to prevent the raiders arriving in relays. Many casualties occurred in shelters, three of which were demolished in one street, Spme persons were rescued alive but most were fatally injured. A boy aged sixteen rescued his injured mother from the wreckage of their home, but later was killed by a new fall of debris. A seventeen-year-old girl was rescued from another building in which five relatives were killed. A rescue squad was unable to liberate two men owing to the position of a third man who was dead and pinned down under a heavy beam. A doctor amputated the dead man’s leg, after which the others were freed. Five men staying at a hostel were trapped under debris when a bomb demolished part of the premises. Two were rescued injured. A direct hit killed a fire-watcher on a tower at industrial premises. A heavy bomb split a cinema in two. A German communique says: “The Luftwaffe bombed' warehouses, oil storage depots and 'docks at Hull and aerodromes in the Midlands.”