AIR RAIDS ON BRITAIN
MORE NAZI HORRORS - CHILDREN MURDERED ¥ HOSPITAL, NURSING HOME AND HOUSES DESTROYED (Official Wireless) (Received October 19, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, October 18 The Ministry of Home Security announced that during September 6954 civilians were killed and 10,615 seriously injured in air raids on the United Kingdom. As far as classified returns have been received the totals are divided as follows: Killed Seriously Injured Men - - . 1920 4i78 Women - - . 2210 3629 Children under 16 - 694 675 Of the remaining 2130 persons killed 1157 were males and 973 females. Of the remaining 2133 seriously injured 1231 were males and 902 females.
In the earliest and longest of last night’s raids one bomb bit a big building in the London area. Rescue squads released six persons who had been trapped when four houses were destroyed; also a number of men, three of whom were dead, from a building in another district, where it is feared more remain.
A baby which was sleeping in a motor car was killed wdien a garage was demolished. The mother, who was in a nearby doorway, escaped.
There was much damage in Liverpool and other Merseyside towns. A sanatorium, a hospital and a nursing home were hit and houses demolished or damaged, modem council houses were damaged.
Ten men propped up the roof of a collapsing house with their heads while children were rescued from a room below.
A mother and child were blown from their beds on the first floor through a window into the front garden.
Three auxiliary territori a lorry in a south-east town, man and warden were killed
ial service girls were killed on , where also an auxiliary fire-
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21248, 19 October 1940, Page 7
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277AIR RAIDS ON BRITAIN Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21248, 19 October 1940, Page 7
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