SCATTERED RAIDS
ON SOUTHERN ENGLAND TOWNS & VILLAGES REPORT INCIDENTS. DAMAGE IN SOME AREAS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON,“December 17. More than a score of towns and villages reported incidents as a result of enemy planes flying over the south and south-east coasts yesterday. Raiders attacked from a low level, but the damage was negligible in most areas. In some places, however, churches, shops and houses were wrecked. Four raiders made four attacks on a school in which a hundred girls were holding a Christmas narty. Machine-gun bullets rained through classroom windows and incendiaries set fire to the roof, but . there were no casualties. Other raiders attacked a train in the Home Counties. The driver, guard and some passengers were wounded by bullets.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 December 1942, Page 3
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