LESS INTENSE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 259, 30 September 1940, Page 7

LESS INTENSE

ENEMY AIR ACTIVITY.

RURAL AREAS RAIDED.

(United Press Association—Copyright.)

(British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 9 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 29. London, South-East England, Merseyside, and the East Midlands were attacked by enemy bombers during the night and a few bombs were dropped at isolated points, but an Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security communique states that reports indicate that no damage or casualties were caused.

In the south-east the attacks were mainly concentrated on South and West London and districts in the Home Counties on the southern western outskirts of the capital. A number of fires were started which were soon under control, and the damage was mainly confined to dwelling houses. There were some casualties. On the Merseyside the attacks were less severe than of late and, though some houses were damaged, no casualties arc reported. In the East. Midlands high-explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped ill rural areas, hilt the damage was slight, with no casualties.

BOMBERS DESTROYED

Three enemy aircraft, all bombers, have been destroyed over this country since midnight, one of which, brought down during the night, fouled a balloon cable and crashed into the sea off the South Coast. The second was shot down in the Thames Valley by fighters this morning. Later another was shot down into the sea off the South-East Coast by anti-aircraft guns. 'Enemy activities over Britain tins morning consisted of a few attacks by single aircraft. Sonic bombs were dropped at points in the Thames Estuary, two towns and villages on the South Coast, and a village ill the Home Counties. Little damage was done in any of these attacks, and there was a very 6ma.1l number of casualties. Last week there appeared an announcement which brought home in a strangely direct way the fact that whole nations are involved in modern war and that in war as waged by Hitler it is often the civilians who are in. the front line before the soldiers. Special arrangements had been made, it was announced, for notifying immediately to members of His Majesty s Forces casualties among their civilian relatives in air raids.