ALARM IN BANGOR
ACCIDENTAL SHELLING FROM SEA SOME NARROW ESCAPES , FROM DEATH. FIVE HOUSES DAMAGED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, January 3. Five houses were damaged and several people narrowly escaped death during an accidental bombardment from the sea off Bangor, County Down. A shell penetrated a house in which three children were sitting on a couch and flung the couch endways. A second shell wrecked a perambulator in the next door garden, from which a child had just previously been removed. Another struck a garage and damaged cars. The Admiralty stated that when a Fleet auxiliary was at practice at the entrance to Belfast Lough shells fell at Bangor. Nobody was injured, but some houses and buildings were damaged.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 January 1940, Page 5
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