HOUSES DAMAGED
Practice Shells Fall At Bangor NARROW ESCAPES By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received January 3, 9 p.m.) LONDON, January 3. Five houses' were damaged and several people narrowly escaped death during an accidental bombardment from the sea off Bangor, County Down. A shell penetrated a house in which three children were sitting on a couch and flung the couch endways. A second .shell wrecked a perambulator in the next door garden, from which a child had just previously been removed. Another struck a garage and damaged cars. The Admiralty stated that when a Fleet auxiliary was at practice at the entrance to Belfast Lough shells fell at Bangor. Nobody was injured, but some houses and buildings were damaged. FUND FOR SAILORS (British Oflicial Wireless.) RUGBY, January 2. In response to a broadcast appeal by Earl Baldwin, the King George’s fund for sailors has reached £25,000, thereby qualifying for a contribution from Lord Nuffield and bringing the total to £50,000, which, is a record for broadcasting appeals in England.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 85, 4 January 1940, Page 7
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168HOUSES DAMAGED Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 85, 4 January 1940, Page 7
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