FLYING BOMBS

Grey River Argus, 5 July 1944, Page 3

FLYING BOMBS

FURTHER CASUALTIES In South of England LONDON, July 3. Flying bombs continue to cause many casualties in Southern England. , ' . Among those killed by flymg bombs during the week-end were Major-General Sir Arthur Scott, 82, who was commander of the British 3rd Army in the last war, and Sir Percy Alden, 79, the well-known educationist. Both men lived in Buckinghamshire, about 65 miles inland from the Channel coast. A flying bomb crashed on a roadway and wrecked houses, under which several were trapped. Eight were killed and others injured. A workman who returned home last night from a late shift found his home demolished and rescue workers digging in the ruins. The bodies of his wife and five children were later recovered. Several people were buried up to the necks in rubble when a flying bomb exploded in a group of houses in a southern town. Rescue workers rushed to their aid as fire threatened to spread to them. They were extricated suffering slight injuries and burns. Damage was caused in a southern England town when anti-aircraft guns shot down a flying bomb. 'Today’s flying bomb victims included American soldiers. Fighters and anti-aircraft defences have taken a heavy toll of flying bombs projected against southern England in the last 24 hours. Two pilots of A.D.G.B. performed the hat trick, each destroying three bombs during a single patrol. Fighters operating over one southern England area last evening, shot down, a high proportion of the total number of flying bombs passing over. The fighters were swarming in the sky despite .adverse weather conditions. They pounced on the flying bombs, sometimes chasing them through clouds. At least two bombs which were destroyed blew up in the air. -Others crashed in rural districts. A number of people were killed or injured. THE ROBOTS ■ STILL COMING. DAMAGE ON TUESDAY. (Rec. 12.40.,) LONDON, July 4. Flying bombs caused casualties ana damage in southern England on Monday night. The robots again, fell m the southern areas in daylight on Tuesday. ’ A R.A.F. fighter destroyed one flying bomb over a village wherein there were some casualties caused. Hardly one house escaped. Another flying bomb damaged a hotel. -It killed two customers and damaged other premises. LATEK. Although it was expected Mr Churchill would make a statement in the Commons to-day on flymg bombs, Mr Eden announced that the Prime Minister would not do so until Thursday. OLD COCKNEY’S COMMENT. (Rec. 7.15.) LONDON, July 4. An old Cockney was asked yesterday: “Are you afraid of flymg bojnbs ?” His reply was: No, guv’nor. ■ You see they haven’t rnucn chance against me. First, Jerry has to pop them off, and that is not easy with our ’planes about. Then they have to cross the Channel, and that is not easy either. Then comes London. Jerry can’t miss that, but then he has to find Hackney, then Bluebel. Avenue, then Number fifty-nine, ano then, most likely, I’ll be down at the pub I”