FIRE BOMBS DROPPED
ON RIPENING HARVEST IN EAST ANGLIA
SEVERAL HITS ON MENTAL HOSPITAL.
FATAL & OTHER CASUALTIES
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright)
(Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 11
During last night’s enemy raids, many incendiary bombs were showered on cornfields in East Anglia, in an organised attempt to set fire to the harvest. Watchers buried many bombs before they caused destruction.
A mental hospital in East Anglia was hit several times. Two wards occupied by aged patients were destroyed and a number of patients and members of the staff were killed. Several were seriously injured and others are missing. Twelve bodies have been recovered. Two aged women, buried under three tons of debris, were rescued alive after six hours.
The Luftwaffe, according to the Berlin radio, last night bombed Colchester and Hastings.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1942, Page 4
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