A NARROW ESCAPE
MINISTER’S EXPERIENCE BOMB OUTSIDE WINDOW LONDON. Oct. 15. Mr Ernest Bevin (Minister of Labour) while sleeping, had a harrow escape' from a bom b which ‘dropped, outside his bedroom winj shattered the. Window.. Mr '■Eeyin.-.returned to ;bed after learn--rlhg 'that the-damage was superficial. The total number of air raid casualties in the Midland Counties to September 30 was 170 killed, 180 seriously injured, and 380 slightly injured The total of 55 raids included Some of Britain’s most densely-populated areas. One thousand incendiaries in a week damaged only a haystack. The three months’ fatalities from road accidents in the same region were 183.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24431, 17 October 1940, Page 7
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