MANY HOMELESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 157, 4 July 1940, Page 8

MANY HOMELESS.

IN ENGLISH TOWN. Housed In Public Halls After Raid. MORE DEATHS REPORTED.

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LONDON - , Julv 3

It is officially stated that a Gorman bomber shot down off the oast coast this morning makes the 24th raider destroyed since June IS. Nearly 100 enemy 'planes have been destroyed over and around the British coasts since the outbreak of the war. Many more have been so seriously damaged that it is unlikely they reached their bases.

Thirteen persons were killed and 123 injured in Tuesday's raid.-. Ten people were killed and 110 injured in one town in the north-east of England. So many people were rendered homeless that public halls were opened to accommodate them.

Enemy 'planes dropped bombs at several points over England and Scotland this afternoon. Two people were killed and 22 injured. Two bombers were shot down.

It is officially announced that the bombs dropped by several enemy 'planes which crossed the south coast this morning were few in number, and it did not appear that they were directed againet any particular objective. As far as is known two persons were injured when bombs fell in one town. An enemy 'plane flew low over the town before it disappeared seawards and people saw the bombs released. One exploded in a garden, smashing the front of a house. Two others crashed on an adjoining roadway. An incendiary bomb set fire to a building. Other bombs fell in the sea and in open country. The enemy 'plane machine-gunned soldiers near a beach.

Tragedy in Cottage. A bomb, which struck a cottage in the town attacked, killed a baby and ite grandmother. The baby, which was asleep, was blown from the cottage 30 yards across the street. Another bomb set fire to a store. Shoppers and the staff are believed to have escaped.

Three bombs dropped on the northeastern part of England injured several workmen.

The death roll from Monday's raid on the north-east or Scotland has reached 15, with the subsequent death of three of those injured.

The Air Ministry and the Ministry of Home Security in a communique states that enemy aircraft this afternoon dropped bombs on the north-east coast of England and in Scotland, injuring about Iβ people, says a British official wireless message. Bombs were also dropped in eastern counties and jn the south-east coaet area of England.. Casualties were reported in a Suffolk town, where two persons were killed and about 1C injured.

R.A.F. fighters sent up to intercept the raiders ehot down two bombers, making a total of three destroyed today.

An Air Ministry communique issued later to-night .states that two enemy bombera were intercepted and shot down by British fighters this evening, bringing the total enemy aircraft destroyed during the attacks on Britain to-day to five.