The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-07
land, were attacked.)
 English Town Hit

f An air and home security minis ters communique said the Germans in small numbers bombed an east ern England town for 8 short time and there was a little enemy activity over coastal districts of eastern and southern Scotland.
 The communique said bombs were dropped at few scattered points in the areas specified, and some damage and casualties resulted.
 Several houses were burned in and around the eastern England area but casualties were light and most of the enemy high explosive bombs fell in open country.
 Two persons were killed and four wounded when 8 single raider at tackled a southeast Scotland town A caretaker was killed at a social center which was severely damaged and a girl was killed in a damaged tenement. Freakishly, most people in this town did not know there was an air raid. For some reason the noise of the bomb explosions was confined to a small area.
 Nine persons were killed and eight wounded when a German plane dropped its bombs on the residential area of an east Scotland town. Three persons were missing. Thirty homes were damaged.
 It was made known that 12 per- sons were killed yesterday evening when 8 German plane dropped a high explosive bomb on hospital in south western England
 Six Planes Lost
 Aviation quarters understood that the British loss of six planes in the Duisberg raid last night was remarkably small considering the force of planes engaged.
 It was apparent, informants said, that Duisberg had not recovered from the heavy attacks 1t under went during the week ended July 27, and that this fourth attack showed the success of the RAF plan of repeatedly smashing with heavy forces at one target. so that its de- fense would be weakened.
 The air ministry, in a reviewing of air operations during July, re- ported the RAF lost 432 planes, while destroying 421 enemy aircraft.
 The ministry reported 27 raids against Germany during the month. Although at no time did the RAF' hurl as many as 1000 bombers against the enemy at any one time, on 10 occasions targets were bombed by 100 or more planes.
 The month brought a slight in- crease in daylight activity of the German air force, the air ministry said, but the enemy attacks were in no way comparable to the blister ing raids carried out by the RAF.
 Conscript Women
 London, Aug. 7-fuP)-Home Security Minister Herbert Mor- rison announced plans today to conscript British women from 70 to 45 years of age to serve as fire watchers. a job made more im- portant by disclosure yesterday that German raiders are dropping a new type of phosphorus fire bomb.
 Morrison said incendiary bombs are "the greatest single menace of air attack" and that Britain was suffering from a serious shortage of men watchers.
 He said he hoped to speed con- scription of the women, who prob- ably will start registering within two weeks.
 The announcement came 24 hours after the home security ministry warned about incendiaries filled with phosphorus-a waxey substance which if dry, bursts into flames at room temperature.
 DeGaulle in Cairo
 London, Aug. 7.-(UP) - Gen Charles DeGaulle, head of the fight ing French, has arrived in Cairo his headquarters here announced today.
 The arrival of DeGaulle in the Middle East was viewed with inter- est by observers here in connection with talk of second front.
 They said any invasion of the continent certainly would include the aid of the fighting French anc that viewed in this light his trir to Egypt should be considered sig nificant.
 Cairo, Aug. 7-(UP) = Allied heavy bombing planes, probably including consolidateds of tho United States army air corps, started q big fire in . raid on harbor in. stallations and shipping at the Axii base of Tobruk on the Libya coast the Middle Eastern command re