FLYING BOMBS

Grey River Argus, 15 August 1944, Page 5

FLYING BOMBS

WEEK-END ISSUES. MORE DAMAGE. LONDON, August 13. More flying bombs were sent over Southern England and the London area on Saturday night. They caused damage ana casualties. On Sunday morning a number of people were killed or injured when a flying bomb struck a block of flats, as the occupants were breakfasting. Flats, shQps, post office, cafes, ana other premises were damaged in another daylight incident. A hospital was damaged when a flying bomb fell in the grounds last night. There were no casualties.

Fighters and anti-aircraft guns continued to take toll of flying bombs a number being exploded harmlessly over the sea.

(Rec. 7.45.). LONDON, August 14. A group of Fourteenth Century houses and a church, in Southern England were seriously damaged by a blast from flying bombs on Saturday night. Only the church tower and walls, part of which date back to the 12th. century, are left standing. The tracery of the east window is preserved. The organ was blown into tne middle of the church. The vicarage was badly damaged. (Rec. 12.50 LONDON, Aug. 14. The Germans resumed their flying bomb attacks against the southern English Counties, including the London area, shortly before midnight on Sunday. The bombs caused casualties and damage. One flying bomb hit a hospital. It blew off the doors and wrecked the windows. It also wrecked one of the. finest nurses’ homes in Britain, but no staff or patients were injured. The enemy sent over more flying bombs in daylight on Monday.