NIGHTLY VISITATION

Evening Star, Issue 23693, 28 September 1940, Page 11

NIGHTLY VISITATION

NAZI RAIDERS OVER CAPITAL OPERATIONS FAIRLY WIDESPREAD LONDON, , September 27. Haiders again kept up the bombing of London all night. Central London ■was again comparatively quiet for the first few hours, despite the occasional fiarhtg up of gunfire and the explosion of bombs. A district in North London received a bad pasting for a short period. High-explosive bombs followed a number of flares, destroying a maternity wing of a hospital. Other bombs razed houses and shops nearby. Incendiary bombs in the same area were swiftly put out, and little damage was done.

Many London areas experienced similar visitations. A north-west town had the worst bombing since the outbreak of the war. Night raiders also visited a south-east coastal area

German guns on the French coast shelled the Dover area, and a man and a woman were killed. The Air Ministry reveali that during. a half-hour attack against Southampton one British and cue Polish fignter squadron shot down all the 34 German planes destroyed yesterday. Fifty Heinkel bombers, heavily protected by fighters, approached the Isle of Wight at a height of 10,000 ft. The Poles, flying Hurricanes, immediately attacked the bombers, and chased some across the Channel to France.

Meanwhile, nine Spitfires took on a further 30 bombers, which were escorted by fighters at s height of 14,000 ft, and chased the attackers to sea after a aeries of thrilling encounters.

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