RAIDLESS NIGHTS
13 IN A FORTNIGHT
DAY ATTACKS ON BRITAIN
SEVERAL CASUALTIES
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received February 4, 11.20 a.m.)
LONDON, February 3. London had another raidless night, making the thirteenth in the past fourteen days. The Air Ministry had nothing to report.
■ There was heavy anti-aircraft gunfire in the London area at noon when bombs damaged several houses and killed a child.!
A raider which dived from low clouds over the south-east coast released a stick of bombs over a town and hit a Methodist church, which was wrecked. Several other buildings in the vicinity were damaged. Houses were also, damaged and a woman and a boy killed and a number of people injured.
It is believed that the raider was hit as it was chased off by a Spitfire. The, Lord Mayor of London opened a bridge over the city's largest bomb crater, made when a bomb made a direct hit on a subway. The bridge consists of two steel spans supported by steel' piers and carries a wooden roadway 10 feet 6 inches wide. It includes footways 2 feet 6 inches wide.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 29, 4 February 1941, Page 8
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185RAIDLESS NIGHTS Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 29, 4 February 1941, Page 8
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