SLIGHT ACTIVITY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 7 December 1940, Page 6

SLIGHT ACTIVITY

GERMAN NIGHT RAIDS ALL OVER BY MIDNIGHT SOUTH COAST DISTRICT THE CHIEF TARGET [U.P.A.-By Electric Telegraph-Copyrtght] (Received 7th December, 10.50 a.m.) LONDON. 6th December. Last night, for the third successive night, German raids on this country were slight and ceased shortly after midnight. The main attack was on a south coast district, where there was damage to property and some people were killed. In London j bombs were dropped at a few points. LONDON. sth December. A priest and widow were last night standing beside the body of the : widow’s brother, killed in a previous 1 air raid, talking about the funeral arrangements. A bomb hit the back of 5 the house and both were injured. 1 A.R.P. squads, joined by pioneers, are still striving to locate the re- '■ mainder of the women and children f trapped under the bombed ruins of ' the London convent where 10) people 1 were sheltering on the night of 3rd J December. There is little hope that ' any of those buried are still alive. To-day’s chief target for German raiders was a mental home in south- : east England, where bombs brought • down tall chimney stacks, injuring 1 seven people. Other raiders driven 1 off from England dropped bombs without damage near trawlers in the Straits of Dover. Small formations of Messerschmitts sevei'al times later attempted to cross the coast, but were driven off. The Air Ministry reports that a squadron of Spitfires to-day without loss shot down eight Messersschmitt 109’s off the Kent coast. 1 German heavy guns at Cap Gris-nez inaugurated a violent artillery duel across the Straits of Dover, which continued for an hour. German night 1 raiders crossed the south-east coast and dropped bombs inland.