'A high explosive bomb in ancther district partially demolished a church, damaged a YMCA. building and smashed other buildings.
British defence leaders said the intensified British anti-sizeratt bar= rage thrown up last night kept the German raiders at higher altitudes than' usual.
to midnight, eight Germun bombers had been shot down, Eight British fighter planes were lost yesterday but the pilots of six escaped by. parachute.
While the raiders aftucking London scattered bombs over the. capital, about twenty other German bombers, converging from different. directions, attacked Liverpool twice last night, Both times high explosive bombs were dropped on the ly. During the second raid. a direct hit was scored on a hotel, burying the guests and staff in piles'of debris.
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