HOUSES WRECKED
EXPLOSION OF DRIFTING BALLOON ON ROOFS IN LIVERPOOL SUBURB. SCORES OF PEOPLE HAVE NARROW ESCAPES. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, Noon.) LONDON, September 15. Twenty houses were wrecked and scores of people had narrow escapes when a drifting barrage balloon descended and exploded on the roofs of houses in a Liverpool suburb in the early hours of this morning. A few persons were slightly injured. . People scrambled from their beds, clambered out of the wrecked houses and took refuge in street shelters. The balloon burst into flames, but firemen quickly extinguished the fire.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 September 1942, Page 4
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97HOUSES WRECKED Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 September 1942, Page 4
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