The Archive · 1941

Civilian Damage Reported

Reports on the latest raids on Eng and show that in London a hospital building was set on fire by Incendiary bombs, but that the flames were soon ut ati. A cinema also enright fre and wag damaged by incendiaries, Fire fighting forces in one small coast town dealt promptly with a shower of incendiaries dropped over a wide area, but a row of shops and church were damaged.

A single German raider which tempted to attack a number of British feast coast town was met be fierce anti-aircraft fire, and several shells ere seen to explode close to the plane, The reider's bombs fell harmlessly. into the sea, and the aircraft was last sean disappearing into a cloud with two British fighters on its tan.

Only three' per cent. of London's population use public shelters during, it voids, Mir. Ernest Brown, Minis for of Tfealth, stated at Cardiff today when quoting actual census figures.

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