AIR CASUALTIES.
IN MIDLAND COUNTIES. FIGURES TO SEPTEMBER 30. (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, October 15. Mr Ernest Bovin (Minister for Labour) had a narrow escape while sleeping when a bomb dropped outside his bedroom window and shattered the window. Mr Bevin returned to bed after learning that the damage was superficial. The total air raid casualties in the Midland Counties to September 30 were 170 killed, 180 seriously injured and 380 slightly injured. The total of 55 raids included some of Britain’s most densely-populated areas. One thousand incendiaries in a week damaged only a haystack. In three months' to fatalities from road accidents in the same region totalled 183.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 4, 16 October 1940, Page 6
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