BRUTAL ATTACKS
ON HELPLESS CIVILIANS
RAIDERS OVER ENGLAND
(United Press Association —Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) (Fee. 1.16 p.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 23. An Air Ministry aiid Ministry of Home Security communique, describing Monday’s enemy air attacks, says: The formations of enemy aircraft, mostly composed of _ fighters, which crossed the Kent and South Essex coasts this morning were met and attacked by our fighters. The enemy formations were broken up and engagements took place over Kent and Essex and off the coast. No bombs are reported to have been dropped in this attack.
Later in the morning the enemy made deliberate attacks on the civilian population of several .seaside towns on the Sussex coast, in particular Eastbourne. Houses were damaged but, fortunately, the number of casualties was small.
Early in tbe afternoon anti-aircraft guns in the London area opened fire on a single enemy aircraft, which flew away without dropping bombs. Tnis evening another large enemy formation, again mostly fighters, crossed the Kent coast, but did not penetrate any distance inland. They recrossed the coast on the approach of our fighters.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 254, 24 September 1940, Page 8
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