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AIR ATTACK IN FRANCE LONDON. July 5 United States fishier? yesterday ! heavily strafed and dive-bombed German railway, water and motpr ; transport and shot down IT enemy ; planes in combat. Thunderbolts, Musj lanes and lightnings this morning j escorted heavy bombers to France and I straffed ground targets. Thunderbolts j and lightnings in the evening directed i low-level attacks against marshalling yards, rolling stock canal barges and i motor vehicles in an arc extending : from the Cambrai area south-westward ! to Nantes. The planes destroyed or : damaged 85 locomotives, over 7(»i vail coaches. 51 trucks. 15 barges, seven railway oiltanks, 23 flak towers, three ammunition wagons, two water towers and eight flak cars. MI'RDER CHARGE WELLINGTON, Thursday Because of the absence of a police witness at the Dannevirke Lower Court the hearing of the charge against Mary Stuart Walker of murdering Richard Townsend ChorJey was adjourned by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., to Monday. This was done at the conclusion of further evidence this morning. Constable Charles Gordon Charison described a visit to the place after receiving information that Chorlev had been injured there. He asked Mrs Walker if she knew how Chorlev received his in’junes. She had been dxlnking but was not drunk. She became very hostile and refused to tell anything of the cricumstances at all. Later she said “ it serves the right. He snould have gone south with his wife tonight."
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Waikato Times, Volume 195, Issue 22393, 6 July 1944, Page 4
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