DEATH FROM THE AIR

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 111, 11 May 1940, Page 12

DEATH FROM THE AIR

BRUSSELS ATTAGK 1

80 PEOPLE REPORTED KILLED

LYONS RAIDED

RETALIATORY ACTION

LONDON, May 10.

There were further air attacks on Brussels this afternoon, and antiaircraft guns were continuously in

action.

According to one newspaper, 8Q people, including women and eta - dren, are reported to have been killed in a suburb of Brussels. <

Twelve civilians, including a six-month-old baby, were killed! on the outskirts of the capital. ' Lyons was again raided this afternoon, the attack lasting for over an hour. There was heavy anti-aircraft fire. The French suffered no casualties.

It is now known that the early air raid on Brussels lasted an hour; and a half. The damage was- slight. A few houses were hit, and one factory outside Brussels is burning. The people are calm, cheerful, an! full of confidence in the Allies. The Air Ministry has announced that Royal Air Force aircraft, have taken offensive operations against aerodromes occupied by the enemy in Holland. On the Western Front the Royal Air Force attacked enemy troops and engaged German bombers. Proof of the cost of the German raids *is an estimate that the German have lost upwards of 100 planes today.

The Dutch Army claims to have brought down 70 enemy ' bombers, Belgium eight or nine, 18 or more were shot down by the French, and five were shot down in unsuccessful attempts on R.A.F. aerodromes in France, the attacks being driven /.off by fighters. Brussels and Amsterdam were both raided, and one report says that bombs fell in a thickly-populated area near the centre of the Belgian capital.