TAKING SHELTER.
THREE TIMES IN ONE NIGHT.
RAIDERS OVER ENGLAND.
(Received This Day, 10.29 a.m.) LONDON, July 31
A German ’plane over the south-east area dropped four bombs near houses, setting fire to one and damaging the others. Two people were taken to hospital.
The inhabitants of a south-west town went to their shelters thrice during the night. British fighters were active, but no bombs were dropped when waves of bombers attempted to penetrate inland across the Welsh coast. The formations were broken up and bombs fell in the sea and near a lfieboat station. There were no casualties.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19400801.2.47
Bibliographic details
Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 252, 1 August 1940, Page 5
Word Count
99TAKING SHELTER. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 252, 1 August 1940, Page 5
Using This Item
Ashburton Guardian Ltd is the copyright owner for the Ashburton Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Ashburton Guardian Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.