NO NIGHT RAIDS
Rescue Work At Sheffield By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received December 18, 9.50 p.m.) LONDON, December 17. No night raiders were over Britain to midnight. Great progress has been made in bringing the damaged areas in Sheffield back to normal. Rescue work continues. Some of those buried without food since December 12 were dug out alive on December 16. A bomb blast last night in a West Midlands town caused the roof of a hall to collapse and trapped 20 women under the debris. It killed a boy and a girl. A stick of bombs straddled a street, a number of persons being injured. German raiders dropped bombs in Central London and a number of other districts in England last night, but the damage was not extensive, and there was only a small number of casualties. The Air Ministry and Home Security joint communique on enemy activity to-night was the shortest since the blitz began. It said there was nothing to report. However, it is learned that last night small formations of British bombers, in spite of adverse weather, attacked objectives in south-west Germany and the coast of occupied France.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21841, 19 December 1940, Page 5
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191NO NIGHT RAIDS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21841, 19 December 1940, Page 5
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