TOTAL NOW SIX
Deaths In Monday's German Air Raid. < SCREAMING BOMBS USED. (Received - p.:n.) LONDON, July 17. Five of eleven bombs dropped in south-east England were of the screaming type. One struck a group of twostoreyed houses where a woman and a three-year-old girl were killed. The gill's mother and several, others were injured. A number of houses were damaged. The total deaths in Monday's raid in the south-east is now six. A German raider dropped 15 bombs in the south-east of Scotland. A bomb fell in front of a police station in which a sergeant's wife was asleep. She was thrown from the bed. The house was damaged. Other bombs fell in fields. Kaiders dropped six bombs in o[>en country in the south-east ok England this afternoon. There were 110 casualties. Kaiders are also reported to have been over south-west England.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 169, 18 July 1940, Page 7
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