HEAVY BOMBARDMENT.
ATTEMPTS TO REACH LONDON TYNESIDE PEOPLE CALM. (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) LONDQN, January 11. Thousands of people from Scotland to the South Coast of England saw Royal Air Foi/ec filters hotly pursuing German raiders. The boom of anti-air-craft guns, the crackle of machine-guns, the clatter of shrapnel falling, m the streets and on the housetops and the bursting of shrapnel, warned the inhabitants of Tyneside that Geiman raiders had crossed the coast. Residents of Tyneside went into the streets to gather pieces of shrapnel as souvenirs. Schoolchildren calmly continued their lessons. The Thames raider attempting to reach the London area was unable to penetrate the heavy anti-aircraft, bairage. Guns from Kent to Essex opened a furious bombardment. The Air Ministry bulletin states that additional to the raid on Newcastle, enemy aircraft appeared off the Firth of Forth and the estuaries of the Humber and Thames. Anti-aircraft units and fighter patrols drove them off.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 78, 12 January 1940, Page 5
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