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Six Die In Air Raid: Haystack Main Nazi Target
GERMAN BOMBERS raided parts of the North-
East and South-East of England during the early N.E.I.
| hours of the morning, in the third intensive air raid
on Britain in four days.
Three civilians were killed in Suffolk, three others died from shock, and three people were in- jured. Apart from this, the main casualties were
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The raids were less serious than the house was shaken and dam- those earlier in the week, pro-aged by the explosions of bably less than 100 planes being bursting bombs. involved.
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lonely farmstead is in a British fighter planes drove the part of the county, and there are raiders off easily, and though none few houses within a considerable was brought down several were radius. thought to have been hit.
KILLED IN THEIR HOME SHELTER
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"The bomber," said an eye-wit- ness, "made several circuits and government continues to each time dropped a salvo of high speed up its defence plans explosive and incendiary bombs. When a heavy calibre German His machine-guns
fired a good with local units co-operat- bomb exploded eight feet from many tracer bullets. the front door of a house in a
"The attack went on for a con- ing in the preparedness Suffolk town, the three occupants siderable time, but as soon as programme.
of the house were killed outright. R.A.F. fighters came on the scene They were sitting in a privately the raider made off and disappear- bought shelter constructed in the ed towards the sea with our ma- kitchen of their home. Scores of chines in pursuit." people only a few yards away, who were unscathed, although bomb splinters and masonry were
hurled all round them.
of
The Volksraad (parliament) voted a new extra credit of 70,000,000 guilders, to the depart- The air raid warning in twolment of marine for the purchase East Coast towns lasted for over of material while both Batavia five, and a half hours. Several and Medan were each spending a million guilders in the buying of explosions shook houses. The three raid victims are: Mr.
In one town several enemy weapons for their civic guards.
Two Sumatra native self-rulers Robert Anderson (38), managing planes could be heard overhead, director of a local store; his wife, and one, when caught in the rays presented sufficient funds, to the Stella Blanche, whose mother of the searchlights, banked steeply government for the purchase lives at Northwood, Middlesex, and disappeared. Shortly a after four aerroplanes. They will be used and their maid, Ruby Crawford British fighter planes roared for the training of pleasure pilots (18), whose parents live at Little across the sky and machine-gun who later will join the air force. Glenham, Suffolk."
firing could be heard for several The army created an auxiliary The newly-built house Into minutes.
corps of civilian motor drivers.
After Hoesein Djajadingrat, which the Andersons moved The alarm lasted for four and only a few weeks ago was prac-threequarter hours at a Suffolk director of the department of edu- tically-demolished. Debris was town, where, soon after the warn-cation, declared against the teach- huried hundreds of yards by the ing was sounded, enemy bombers ing of the German language In the force of the explosion. An iron began coming in from the sea at secondary schools three members girder was thrown 80 yards. almost regular five-minute inter- of the Volksraad offered a motion Heavy bomb fragments pene-vals.
recommending the teaching of Special constables were in a Malay instead. It was approved. of the annual report village street when the bombe fell in a ploughed field a Javasche Bank showed a net pro- little more than 100 yards away. fit for 1939-40 of 2,241,000 guilders Mr. James Read, one of them, as compared with 1,529,000 the A number of other bombs said: "We heard the bomb whis-year before. Meanwhile the bank failed to explode.
trated the roof of scores of houses in the vicinity.
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Seventy-five yards away other bomb fell in a field, carving|
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tling through the air and jumped did not declare a dividend because It was at first feared that they into the ditch at the roadside, and of the current
10 per were bombs of the delayed-action then fragments of the bomb drop-year's dividend totalled type, and householders left their ped around us." homes and spent the night 'in
The floating debt of the govern- ment still was low-about 105,- 000,000 guilders against 123,000,-
in People in various eastern towns 000
January, 1940, and the "whistling" or 100,000,000 in July, 1939.
An increase in industrial output was shown by annual reports.
public air raid shelters.
When they recovered the bod-
ies from the wrecked house, res-
NEW INVENTION,
cue parties found a teddy bear described
and a number of other baby toys "shrieking" of the bombs as they among the wreckage. Though fell. the Andersons had no children, it But as was pointed out by the The production of the mining in- was at first feared that a child's Air Ministry-all bombs whistle dustries doubled in value in the It now totals life might have been lost, and as they fall. It need not, there-last 10 years. frantic search was made for a fore, be assumed that this is a 450,000,000 guilders. These indus- fourth body.
new Nazi terroristic device. tries employ thousands of Euro- Three people who died of shock In one South-East area there peans and 300,000 native labour- were: Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Bulmer was intermittent gunfire and the ers-Associated Press. (79), and Mrs. Caroline, Dinning sky was a network of searchlights. | (52), both of whom-collapsed dur-One plane was caught by the ling a raid in the North-Eastern beams as it was flying eastwards.
area; and Mr. Clark Squire (78),} Several aircraft, believed to be DUNKIRK
who died during a raid in the German, were heard in another South-Eastern area.
RAIDERS HAD MOUSE
AS VICTIM
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In the East coast raids one!
South-East area, and there was the sound of an exploding_bomb in the distance. There was heavy gunfire in this locality,
TO THE
One bomb struck an unoccupied ALTAR
bomb fell near some small works house and another fell in a gar-
and a bridge on a main-road, Part den.
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last
of the road was lifted and every There were two enemy aircraft] As he waited on the beach at
a South-East town window and door in two buildings over
when Dunkirk with one of the near the works was smashed. No Spitfires went up. Our fighters British contingents to be evacuat- one was injured.
drove them off. Bombs droppedjed, Driver Leonard Ward (23), of In the morning, in a small in the South-East area Janded on the R.A.S.C., thought he had little weighing-machine building, which open land.
hope of getting to England to be end of three had its windows broken and a -A salvo of bombs was dropped married at the door blown in, a dead mouse, was on hilltops in one part of South-weeks as he had planned.
East England.
But he was found.
married at St. Three men were on duty at the A number of sheep were injur-Augustine's Church, Honor Oak, works at the time. One of themed and chicken houses damaged, to 22-year-old Miss Winifred said: "I heard a plane approach, Some damage was also done to Robson, of "The Cottage," Syden- and, when he got near the works a farmhouse and a small childham, a week earlier than he seemed to power dive. Then was lightly cut.
I
came the explosions, which lifted me into the air, Personally. think the reflèction of the moon in a skylight gave the raider the impression that he was over large factory.”
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"I had applied for leave to get married, the banns had been put up and all arrangements made nearly a month ago," said the bridegroom. Then all leave was stopped and I thought it was off About five other bombs were
until I was told a few days ago dropped about a mile away from
I could have 48 hours' leave, so the works, and further bombs fell So, that men in the Services we were not only married, but a
can re-marry before being sent week earlier than in a field,
had we abroad, Divorce Court Judgos are planned." MACHINE-GUN ATTACK. ^to give permission for the speed-
AT FARMHOUBE
ing up of decrees... One of the raiders, which was At present six months must Hlater chased out to sen by our elapse before a decree nisl can: Aghters, apparently mistook albe made absolute, so that the lonely farm in an Eastern county King's Proctor con investigate for an important target. After reasons why the decree should setting are to a haystack thejnot be made absolute.
Al Capone, ex-gangster, bomber repeatedly circled round, In granting a decrce recently, America's Public Enemy No. 1, is
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Several sheep were killed but hands of the King's Proctor to comparisons between himself and no people were injured.
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The occupants of the farm had make the decree absolute, thus gards being Illtened to Mussolini to make a dash for the shelter of enabling the applicant to marry a as a personal insult. After all, he one of the farm buildings when soldier about to be sent abroad. was only a gangstert