FRIDAY'S ATTACKS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 116, 19 May 1941, Page 7

FRIDAY'S ATTACKS

NAZIS OVER BRITAIN

MIDLANDS RAIDED

LONDON, May 17.

German raiders concentrated their main attack last night on a town in the west Midlands, stated by Germany to be Birmingham. Severe damage was done to property, though casualties are believed to be light.

The Luftwaffe also attacked an East Midlands town and a southern England area. Two bombers were brought down. A public shelter was directly hit in a west Midlands district, resulting in a number of casualties. Explosives fell over a wide area in an. East Anglian town, destroying or damaging the homes of workers, many of whom refused to quit while one room was habitable. There were a number of casualties.

A Gorman news agency states that more than 100 planes bombed industrial works and utility services in Birmingham for three hours. Four of the biggest bombs dropped in Barrow-in-Furness must have caused tremendous havoc, it says. Other bombers attacked a number of aerodromes by day and night. An Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security communique states: "During the day there has been a certain amount of enemy activity off the east coast. Small formations of enemy aircraft crossed the coast, -but have not flown inland. To 7.30 p.m. there were no reports of bombs having been dropped. Another enemy fighter was destroyed by anti-aircraft gunfire yesterday afternoon. A third enemy bomber was destroyed last night." It was later reported that an enemy fighter was destroyed off the south coast by British fighters.—U.P.A.