RAIDS ON BRITAIN
LIVERPOOL HAVOC NOTABLE RESCUES', / (United Press Association Per Electric Telegraph Copyright)* LONDON,- December 2. Further Retails of Liverpool’s worst raid, on Friday last,reveal courage on the part; 0 f the victims and unremitting labours on the part of* the rescuers. A youth,- still alive under tons of debris, was found fifty ■ hours after a _ bomb Had demolished working class houses. Rescuefs there began digging within.: half an hour of the explosion. Wounded and killed were slowly brought to the surface, f The rescurers continued to work all 1 Friday and Saturday recovering fur- * ther bodies. Then early ; on Sunday faint moans were beard. A rescuer clambered throuh a tunnel and found the youth. A doctor crawled to him and administered an anaesthetic. The youth was taken to hospital, but he died. Resellers are still , searching and cleaning away the debris in Liverpool. HEAVILT bgmbed > LONDON, ’December 3. ! An Air Ministry communique stat- (. ed that shortly after dark tne , enemy attacked a town in the west of England ; ; on a somewhat’ heavy scale. A number. ,of fires caused ? considerable® damage to; -houses' and. % public and commercial..buildings.’ * » Some people were killed arid others , \ were injured, but the number is re- ; ported to he not large. .
Bombs were dropped early in the night in; East Anglia, South Wales «nd a few points elsewhere. There aws little damage and few casualties. LONDON, December 2. An attack, against, a town in the south-eaist of England began early this evening. Flares were dropped and these, were followed ;by .incendiary bombs and high explosive bombs. Some premises were hit. Damage i 3 {reported to • have. been done in jseyeral. districts*.,. •• •.-lk Another south-west town was raided for the ’seventh successive night. No bombs were droipped. The att* tackers weye .- driven off by fierce ground fire. *
FOG OFF DOVER LONDON, December 2. Dense fog and (Jriw. arid unbroken cloud ; blotted but . the Straits of Dover on Monday night. A cold northeasterly /'wind blew, )b«ut. there fa’as a calm sea. , - , • GERMAN report LONDON, December 2. The German News Agency reported to-night a thick mass of smoke and flames over. Southhampton, where-the' oil tanks are believed to The fire was visible from Cherbourg in France. ' • , • '•
At Southhampton the y rescuers have been working feverishly in the., darkness to rompve further evidence’ of the German fury at the weekends. Pitiable crowds of those who haveheen rendered''homeless in ■ ton were egaged all day-iii search* ! ing the ruins of homes for valuables, before seeking an asylum in other Hampshire areas. The roads are crowded with pilgrims. Meanwhile reorganisation in Southampton went pm ■unceasingly in a tremendous effort to clear the streets and to evacuate those who have been,' rendered. Homeless, in order to facilitate rescue work in case the Germans returned to the fray to-night. The accommodation in the ~ outgoing buses for some hours before the black-out was heavily taxed. It became a case of f ‘women and children first.” Additional were re; quisitioned. Private car owners .did their utmost to the relieve the ,com?' gestion. ’ - vk. 1 >.Y;\
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