The Archive · 1940

Badly" Damaged

Dover, Aug, 23.

Police and Air Raid Precautions workers today cleaned up the wreckage caused by the German shelling last night The damage was connned 10 civilian property but was fairly widespread.

A direct hit pierced a stained lass window' of a church and exploded meat the altar, blow= ing out nearly all the windows and shapping pews Ike mateh= wood. Shrapnel" tore Tumps from the pillars. A fragment of the shell was found in the steps of the pulpit-—United Press ore a number of emplacements in the Calais and Boulogne area, Bit some ed—United Press,

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