HULL BLITZED

Grey River Argus, 21 July 1941, Page 3

HULL BLITZED

HEAVY CASUALTIES IN SHELTERS. July 18. Hull on Thursday night received one of the heaviest attacks from the Luftwaffe for a long time. A large number of heavy bombs damaged houses, commercial buildings, industrial premises, and shops. Incendiaries started a ring of fires. Antiaircraft batteries put up a powerful barrage, but they were unable to prevent the raiders arriving in relays. Many casualties occurred in air raid shelters, three of which were demolished in one street. Some persons were rescued alive, but most of them were fatally injured. A boy aged sixteen rescued his injured mother from the wreckage of their home, but was later killed by a new fall of debris. A seventeen-year-cld girl was rescued from another builamg in which five of her relatives were killed. A rescue squad was unable to liberate two men owing to the position of a third man who was dead and pinned down under a heavy beam. A doctor amputated the dead man’s leg, after which the others were freed. Five men staying in a hostel were trapped under the debris when a bomb demolished part of the premises. Two; who were rescued, were injured. A direct hit killed a fire-watcher on a tower at industrial premises. A' heavy bomb split a cinema in two A German communique states that the Luftwaffe bombed warehouses, oil storage depots, and docks at Hull, and aerodromes in the Midlands. RAIDS ON BRITAIN. LONDON, July IS. Enemy air activity over Britain was again not on a large scale, but there was a sharp attack on a town in the north-east of England. Some damage was done and a number of fires were started. Details of the casualties have not yet been announced, but it is feared that they may prove heavy. Bombs were also dropped on two' other towns, but there were neither casualties nor damage.

A communique states: Enemy aircraft were flown near our coast today, but none were flown inland. There were no reports of bombs being dropped up to eight p.m. One enemy bomber was intercepted by our fighters off the south coast this afternoon and snot down.