RAIDS OVER ITALY
VERSION FROM ROME DAMAGE DESCRIBED if. jVy ' .(Reed. Oct. 22, 3 p.m.) ROME, Oct. 21. •An Italian communique says:— British planes coming from Switzer»nd raided northern Italy. Bombs lit a house add institution at Verona, esulting in three persons being killed ind 12 wounded. Two houses were lemolished in the province of Pavia, four persons were killed. Three louses were damaged in the province >f Alessandria. One person was killed. I church and houses were damaged ind a Are started in a wood in the lorgio Venezzi district.” • ( A Zurich message quotes a "Swiss iigh Command communique, which itates: “British airmen several times riolated our territory in the night,
Tossing the Jura frontier in a southeasterly direction. Anti-aircraft guns it several places fired on the planes.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20385, 23 October 1940, Page 11
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