RAID ON PORTLAND
ELEVEN DEATHS
MANY NAZI PLANES SHOT DOWN
(Received July 6, noon.) LONDON, July 5. It is disclosed that 11 civilians were killed in the raid on Portland on July 4. , Raiders over south-eastern England this morning dropped a number of incendiary bombs and set fire to haystacks and cornfields, which were badly damaged. Thirty-two enemy planes have been shot down over and around -the British coasts since June 18. Many others have been seriously damaged. The balloon barrage brought down two. The total shot down since the war started is 107. Three high-explosive bombs fell in a* town in the south-west of England, damaging a house and causing the admission to hospital of a gardener and a soldier, and slightly injuring seven other soldiers. A raider dropped a screaming bomb on a south-eastern town. Enemy aircraft visited the northwest of England and fighters went up.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 6, 6 July 1940, Page 11
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148RAID ON PORTLAND Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 6, 6 July 1940, Page 11
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