RAIDS AND AMBUSHES

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 251, 27 October 1939, Page 3

RAIDS AND AMBUSHES

ACTIVITY ON WESTERN FRONT SPORADICALLY 'LIVENED I T VISIT BALI) BY GERMAN ILA.F. PLANES A (JAIN OVER BERLIN LONDON. Oet. 25. A Baris communique issued lastnight'states that raids ami ambushes occurred on several parts of the trout which had sporadic-silly livened up. A Berlin message quotes si German news agency, announcement thsit- the •German ( bmmunder-in-Chief, General Brauchtisch. visited the Western Front smtl wsitchcd the lighting. He decorated officers stud men. A German communique stsites thsit enemy units of aoproximntely one eom.psmv lisid been attsieked west- of Voellclingeii stud driven hack into French territory. The Air Ministry smnoudees that The Royal Air Force carried out reconnaissances. including night- Mights over Berlin. Hamburg, and Magdioburg. Referring to these flights. London evening newspapers find loot! lor inflect inn in tin* fact that, at the very hour when the German Foreign Minister. Herr von Rihhentrop, was boasting at Danzig of tlio Nazi might as exemplified in the overthrow of Boland, Britain’s air power was again being demonstrated to the German people unmistakably but liiereii ull\. Safe Return of Planes It is understood that all the Royal Ahv Force planes which made the night reconnaissance, flights over Beilin, Hamburg, and Magdeburg returned safely. The estimate of the full extent of the cfieinv losses in the unsuccessful

attack on 'Saturday on a British convoy in tho North Seit may have to be revised. The-Admiralty ;and 'Air -Ministry: announced!: “We brought down at least three enemy aircraft and the fourth was forced to alight on the sea.” Yesterday two Gorman airmen whose machines were shot down were picked up from a collapsible boat and three survivors of another German bomber shot down by a British ship were also landed in England. A Danish ship •picked up two German airmen from the North Sea on Saturday after seeing their plane crash. . Informed quarters believe that these three planes had taken part in the raid on the convoy. It seems, therefore, that while no damage was done to the convoy or the escort and no casualties were suffered by our plans, seven German aircraft have been accounted for.'