KENT & SUSSEX
RAIDED BV ENEMY AIRCRAFT SOME DAMAGE & CASUALTIES VICTIMS STILL UNDER DEBRIS IN ONE AREA, (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) RUGBY, December 18. It is officially stated that there has been some enemy activity today over coastal areas in Kent and Sussex. Damage and a number of casualties were caused by bombs and gunfire in one coastal town, but elsewhere the damage was slight and the number of casualties small. Our fighters destroyed an enemy bomber off the Sussex Coast. One of our fighters is missing. Two raiders dived on a South Coast town, machine-gunned a street and dropped a stick of bombs. , A number of people were killed or injured. A raider bombed another town and demolished a building. Several bodies have been recovered, but a number cf persons, including women and children, arc believed to be still under the debris. A bomb dropped on a village on the south coast penetrated fiats and caused great havoc. A second bomb wrecked a vicaragge. A third fell ,in the garden of a seaside hotel. It is stated in London that fewer than ten raiders made last night's attacks on Britain.
The Berlin radio said the Luftwaffe last night heavily attacked York and also other Yorkshire towns.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 December 1942, Page 3
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