GREAT DAMAGE.
MANY BUILDINGS WRECKED. WHOLE FAMILY WIPED OUT. (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, September 30. About 100 shops and houses were demolished, a public house wrecked and a club-house, seriously damaged in the south-west of London last night. Another raider jettisoned its bombs in a north-west London residential quarter, damaging houses,, and it is believed wiping out a family of three. Raiders during the first daylight raid to-day consisted of big forces of bombers and fighters. At least 50 bombers, escorted by fighters, crossed the coast in one wave. , British planes engaged the raiders over western London later in the morning. , -
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 304, 1 October 1940, Page 5
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