AIR RAIDS ON BRITAIN

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21156, 4 July 1940, Page 7

AIR RAIDS ON BRITAIN

BABY AMONG THOSE KILLED GROWING DEATH ROLL IN SCOTLAND DAMAGE TO PROPERTY BY INCENDIARY BOMBS (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received July 4, 11 a.m.) LONDON, July 3 Enemy planes dropped bombs at several points in England and Scotland this afternoon. Two people were killed and 22 injured. A bomb dropped in a south-east coast town hit a cottage and killed a baby. The grandmother of the baby, as she was asleep, was blown out of the cottage thirty yards across the street. Another bomb set fire to a store. Shoppers and the staff are believed to have escaped. Three bombs were dropped in north-eastern England, injuring several workmen. Five large German bombers were brought down and four more badly damaged. It is officially announced that the bombs dropped by planes which crossed the south coast this morning were few in number and do not appear to have been directed at any particular objective. Bombs fell on a town. An enemy plane flew low over the town before it disappeared out to sea. People saw the bombs released. One exploded in a garden, smashing the front of a house. Two others crashed on an adjoining roadway. An incendiary bomb set fire to a building. Other bombs fell in the sea and in open country. An enemy plane machine-gunned soldiers near a beach. The death-roll from Monday’s raid on north-east Scotland reached 15 with the deaths of three persons last night.

Raiders Shot Down An Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security communique states: Enemy aircraft this afternoon dropped bombs on the north-east coast of England. Casualties were reported in a Suffolk town, where two persons were killed and about sixteen injured. Our fighter patrol were sent up to intercept and shot down two enemy bombers. Later reports of last evening's raid on the north-east coast indicate that thirteen people were killed and about 120 injured, most of them not seriously. These casualties occurred in the residential areas of three Tyneside towns. An Air Ministry communique issued later to-night states that two enemy bombers were intercepted and shot down by our fighters this evening, bringing the total enemy aircraft destroyed during the attacks on Britain to-day to five.