THREE HUNDRED DEAD

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21816, 20 November 1940, Page 7

THREE HUNDRED DEAD

Special Measures At Coventry Lighter Raids On London United Press Association—By ti 3ectric Telegraph Copyright (Received November 19, 11.12 p.m.) LONDON, November 18. The Coventry city medical officer gathered men, women and children in special clinics for inoculation against typhoid. Surrounding towns sent supplies of serum. Notices posted warn housewives to boil all milk and water. The dead recovered to-day bring the total to more than 300. fcnemy air activity over Britain today has been of a minor character, reports an Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security communique. Bombs were dropped at a few places on the east coast and on the coasts of Sussex and Kent. Some houses were ’damaged, but few casualties were caused. Two small groups of raiders approached London from the southeast and bombs were dropped at two points in the London area, causing some damage to houses but very few casualties. A raider dived from a heavy curtain of cloud over a southern coastal town and dropped a heavy explosive bomb on the poorest section. The bomb wrecked houses and some families under the debris are unaccounted for. Two were killed. The blast shattered shop fronts, littering the streets with glass. Four explosive bombs caused damage to residential property in the 283rd raid on a southern area. Bombs damaged a number of dwelling houses at a few points in the London area and several Channel towns last night. The casualties were not heavy, but some persons were killed. Fourteen German aircraft were destroyed during attacks on Britain yesterday afternoon. Five British fighters were lost, but the pilots of four are safe. Birmingham has decided not to build further big shelters but to concentrate on small surface shelters and strengthened basements holding only a few families.