MALTA AIR RAIDS
344 KILLED; 685 HURT
MANY HOMES DESTROYED
(Reed. Nov. 27, 19 a.m.) MALTA, Nov. 26.
The Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Lieut.-General Sir William Dobbie, in a speech, said that since the outbreak of war, Malta had had 972 air raids in which bombs fell on 350 occasions. Three hundred . and forty-four persons had been killed and 685 seriously injured. Two thousand five hundred and fifty two houses had been destroyed or badly damaged. “I am certain,” he added, “that people in many cities in Great Britain have suffered far more severely from raids.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20624, 27 November 1941, Page 5
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