ENEMY RAID

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 October 1941, Page 6

ENEMY RAID

ON BRITISH COAST TOWN BREAK IN LONG SPELL OF IMMUNITY. SIX ELDERLY PEOPLE AMONG KILLED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) RUGBY, October 3. Last night's German air attack on a south-east coast town appeared in sharp contrast to the long spell of immunity. Three times raiders crossed the Straits and then dived on the town, to drop bombs in several districts. A considerable amount of damage was caused to small properties and a block of flats. Those killed included six elderly people, while nearly thirty injured were admitted to hospital. The attacks were methodically timed, being made at about hourly intervals. The heaviest raid was at about midnight, when a wave of enemy aircraft swooped on to the town. As the raiders returned across the Channel they dropped red' V.erey lights, to prevent their own anti-aircraft batteries, on the French coast, firing on them. The raiders were met with very heavy anti-aircraft fire and by night fighters, also machine-gun fire being heard. ELEVEN KILLED FIFTY-EIGHT INJURED. DAMAGE IN ANOTHER TOWN. (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, October 3. Eleven persons were killed in last night’s raid on a south-east coast town and 58 were injured, of whom 26 were seriously hurt. The persons injured include a sixteen-year-old member of the A.R.P., who continued delivering important messages on his cycle, although bombs were dropping around him. A blast blew him off his cycle. Damage to residential property in a north-east town was fairly heavy, although there were few casualties.