HARVEST IN BRITAIN
NAZIS' EFFORT TO BURN IT
i (Rec. 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 11. During last night's enemy raids many incendiaries were showered, on cornfields in East Anglia, in an organised attempt to set fire to the harvest. Watchers buried many of the incendiaries before they caused destruction. A mental hospital in East Anglia. was hit several times. Two wards,oc- ; cupied by aged patients were destroy - I ed, and a number of patients and mem- ! bers of the staff were killed. Several were seriously injured and others are missing. Twelve bodies were recovered. Two aged women, buried under three tons of deoris, were rescued, alive after six hours. Berlin radio announced that the. Luftwaffe last night bombed Colches-. ter and Hastings. A news agency report says that a small number of German raiders were over East Anglia and south-east England last night.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 37, 12 August 1942, Page 5
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