An eye-witness said, "I heard the sound of the aeroplane engine suddenly cease and then crash ina explosion, The plane was set on fir¢} and windows of nearby houses were smashed.
'German planes appeared over Norfolk at a great height yesterday, a cording to reports reaching here' last hight. The planes hovered over Norfolk towns like great birds, before suddenly diving towards their marks, the reports said. A number of heavy explosions were heard after the plans had dived.
The alr raid alarm in Norfolk lasted 50. minutes. Other counties raided were Cambridgeshire,. Suffolk, Essex, Kent, Northumberland, Dur ham, and Yorkshire—United Press.
Town Machine-Gunned London, June 8.
'A British communique on the raids stetes: "A single German raider, flying low over a south-east coast town, spent ten minutes in fung machine-gun bursts at anybody or Janything he saw. He machine-gunned '2 lifeboat which was searching for a Small missing yacht. Bullets sprayed. roofs and, chimneys.
"The raider also fired at a group of men talking in the street, who were momentarily lit up by the light of a possing motor car. One or two of the: men flopped onthe pavement, and Jothers ran for cover. None were hurt," the communique concludes.
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