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dropped; considerable damage private property, some damage 
      to the railway and public services; casualties slight. Paddockwood, 
      minor damage to rolling stock and permanent way. Caterham over 
      50 H. E. dropped, only slight casualties. Croydon, factory previously 
      mentioned again hit;considerable damage also to gas mains. Southwest 
      London latest report gives casualties as 12 killed and 40 major 
      injuries. Night of August 18th to 19th spasmodic bombing chiefly 
      in open districts. No material damage and no casualties reported.
 
      
 
 
Yesterday morning, enemy appeared chiefly engaged on air reconnaissance. 
      Raiding started in the afternoon, but was carried out by single 
      aircraft, mainly on targets of a military nature. Two salvos 
      of 8 bombs hit Admiralty oil depot at Pembroke dock 8 out of 
      12 tanks were set on fire but fire was under control early this 
      morning. Some damage was caused to buildings at Naval Aircraft 
      Station at Worthydown and a smithy at Chatham dockyard was wrecked. 
      At a training aerodrome 3 Wellingtons were destroyed on the ground. 
      Two other aerodromes were attacked, at one of which some civilian 
      casualties were caused at the other heavy damage was done to 
      barrack buildings, 3 aircraft were damaged and craters were caused 
      on aerodrome. Some damage was done to Motments at Dover, where 
      6 sailors and a soldier were killed and several wounded. 
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