RAIDS ON ENGLAND
DAYLIGHT VISITS
CIVILIAN CASUALTIES
NUMBER OF DEATHS
(By Telegraph—Press AssociaUon —Copyright.!
(Received July 3, 11 a.m,)
LONDON, July 2.
• 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.
It is officially stated that 12. persons were killed and 18. injured in a raid on a town in north-east Scotland. The casualties include four children who were playing in the streets. Bombs fell, on a road fronting a row o£ houses.
A high-explosive bomb fell in the poorer quarter of a town, in nortk-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 firei and explosions were observed.***
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 3, 3 July 1940, Page 7
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177RAIDS ON ENGLAND Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 3, 3 July 1940, Page 7
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