MANY RAIDS MADE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 290, 14 September 1940, Page 5

MANY RAIDS MADE

MIDLANDS AND SOUTH COAST.

SOME DEATHS IN LONDON.

ONE BOMBER SHOT (DOWN

(United Press Association—Copyright.)

(Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) / LONDON, September 13. A survey of enemy raids on Britain is contained in an Air Ministry communique issued at 9p.hi., which .states: “Further details of the enemy’s attack on Britain last night confirm that no extensive damage wins done though bombs were dropped in many parts of the country—two towns in the Midlands and one town on the south coast. Houses were damaged in * one of the Midland towns and a small number ot casualties caused. “In the London area a number of persons were kilted or injured. The attack last night was not heavy. Fuller reports of the previous night’s casualties show that 110 persons were killed and 260 injured in the London area, At midday to-day in addition to- attacks on London, enemy aircraft in small numbers dropped bombs on several districts in tbei south-west of Eng land. In a town in Essex considerable damage was done, but no casualties have been reported. In several other places houses and cottages were hit, but the general damage and casualties reported are slight. Later enemy aircraft, continuing the method of sudden attack and ratreat which characterised their activities thioughout the day, dropped bombs on one district of Central London, in Eastbourne and some places in ICent, and in one town in Surrey. Some casualties resulted in London. In Eastbourne there were also some casualties, most of them slight. “Further details of these later attacks njre not yet available. ’ “An enemy bomber was shot down by our fighters this morning.”—British Official Wireless. *