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Inner room, and apart from shock they were uninjured. They all behaved splendidly.
solitary German plane yes terday afternoon dropped two bombs in fidds near the residential quar-for of a town in south-west Enzland. Several houses were damaged. and there were some casualties.
Including one man ina field, who was killed instantly and 'a few people seriously injured. A number] of cattle was also killed.
Some casualties were also caused! when German aircraft crossed the! north-east coast of Scotland and) dropped several bombs. One these proved fatal The Ministry of Home Security announces that German aircraft dropped a few bombs in southern' and south-western districts of Eng. land. No serious damage is said to have been caused.
The Ministry also announces that there was a small number of casualties in a German raid on a southwestern coastal town, and that a Nazi plane later machine-gunned a cottage in north-east England. ably for 'A machine of the Coastal Come mand was lost on reconnaissance in the Channel during the day. Other aircraft which went in search of the) missing aircraft encountered a German bomber and shot it down.
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