WANTON DESTRUCTION.
FIRES AT SOUTHAMPTON.
LARGE NUMBER'S HOMELESS
(Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, December 2
A communique states: “There was only slight enemy activity over Britain to-day. A number of enemy fighters and fighter-bombers this morning flew in over the coast but were turned hack by our fighters while still over Kent. No bombs are so far reported. “Two enemy fighters were shot down by our fighters without loss to ourselves.
Southampton was again the main objective of enemy air raids last night. Announcing this a communique states that a number of fires were caused but all were well under control by daybreak.
It is reported that relays of German planes attacked for hours. The first force of raiders arrived early in, the evening and dropped parachute flares. Driven to a great height by the intense air barrage the raiders proceeded to shower down hundreds of incendiaries.
While local firemen were tackling the fires Nazi airmen dropped high-explo-sives and caused wanton damage among business premises and private houses. A community underground shelter received a direct hit from a heavy bomb. A large number of people have been rendered homeless. The casualties from both raids last night were small.—British Official Wireless.
CASUALTIES IN TWO NIGHTS. 370 KILLED OR SERIOUSLY INJURED. (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, December 2. The Air Ministry announced that 370 were killed or seriously injured in the raids on Southampton on Saturday and Sunday nights, s
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 45, 3 December 1940, Page 5
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