DOWN IN FIGHT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20081, 30 October 1939, Page 7

DOWN IN FIGHT

NAZI WARPLANE CAPTURE. IN SCOTLAND THRILLING AEROBATICS RELENTLESS PURSUIT BRITISH AIR FORCE (Reed. Oct. 30, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 28. - An air-raid warning was sounded over the Firth of Forth this morning. The all-clear signal was given within half an hour. Gunfire was heard. Before the sirens sounded, people saw what they believed to be an enemy plane emerging from the clouds very high. No bombs were dropped. The Air Ministry announces that a German aircraft was forced down at Dalkeith. It carried a crew o' four, two of whom were dead and one wounded. The pilot was not injured. The prisoners were taken to Edinburgh. Hundreds of Spectators

Hundreds of Scottish countryfolk saw the Nazi reconnaissance plane forced down east of Dalkeith in one of the most amazing displays of aerobatics ever seen in British skies. Twisting, turning, shooting upwards and roaring to earth, the enemy plane fruitlessly tried to shake off the British fighters. It finally crashed, but (he pilot, still attempted to control the -machine, taxi-ing over rough ground in an effort to take-off again. He gave it up when his plane crashed through a wall and struck a hillside.

WRECK OF BOMBER

(Reed. Oct. 30, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 28

A report from Copenhagen says that the wreckage of an aeroplane, believed to be a German bomber, was found in the sea near Bornholm Island.