BOMB DAMAGE IN ENGLAND

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 239, 4 July 1940, Page 9

BOMB DAMAGE IN ENGLAND

Coastal Town Suffers HOUSES DESTROYED; TEN KILLED Further Daylight Raids (By Telegraph—Press, Assn.—Copyright.) (Received July 3, 8.50 p.m.) LONDON, July 3. It is officially stated that I*2 persons were killed and 123 injured last evening in daylight raids on towns on the north-east coast. Ten were killed and 110 injured in a raid on one town in north-east England, and so many people were left homeless that public halls were opened to accommodate them. Another report states that in this town five streets were affected. At least six houses were destroyed and several others were seriously damaged. The victims include the father, mother and child in one family.' LONDON, July 2. A communique issued by the Air Ministry and the Home Secretary tonight states: “Enemy aircraft carried out raids on the north-east coast of England this evening. Bombs fell in two towns aud on the outskirts of a third. A number of casualties have been reported. Enemy aircraft also dropped bombs in open country in the south-west of England. So far as is known at present, there were no casualties in this area.” One news agency report declares that three men, two children and one girl were killed in a town on the northeast coast from which fighter planes chased the raider. One incendiary and one explosive bomb dropped in another part of the north-eastern, area. The incendiary bomb caused a fire with which the fire brigade and police promptly dealt. Three civilians were injured in this attack.

Another report says that five persons were killed when enemy raiders crossed the British coast in daylight for the second successive evening. Many other persons were injured, including several children. Houses and a school were badly damaged. A high-explosive bomb fell in the poorer quarter of a town in north-east England. The German High Command states: “A reconnaissance plane shot down two British fighters in an aerial combat. Planes set fire to a British patrol boat on July 1 east of Torquay. Another attack was launched against the harbour at Wick, in North Scotland. During the night of July 1 our planes again attacked docks and harbours on the Bristol Channel and fires and explosions were observed.”