INSTANT CHASE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1940, Page 5

INSTANT CHASE

GIVEN TO GERMAN AIR RAIDERS APPROACHING "THE BRITISH COAST. ENEMY CLOSELY PURSUED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, January 12. The Nazis have resumed aerial activity on the British coast. A plane, believed to be a Heinkel, appeared over the Yorkshire coast. British fighters chased it out to sea. Machine-gun fire was heard and British machines were seen swoopdown as if to make a kill, as the planes crossed the cliff tops. The fighters later returned and soon afterwards R.A.F. bombers appeared going seawards and gunfire was heard in the distance. Another Nazi plane, believed to be a Heinkel, flew high over the Suffolk coast. Anti-aircraft guns opened fire and the plane disappeared south-east-wards. Heavy anti-aircraft fire was heard at the Thames Estuary and many puffs of smoke appeared in the sky. A plane was sighted, flying at a great height. VISITS TO GERMANY ROYAL AIR FORCE PATROLS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) RUGBY, January 12. The Air Ministry announces that during Thursday night aircraft of the Royal Air Force successfully carried out reconnaissance flights over West and North-West Germany and patrols over German seaplane bases in the Heligoland Bight.

BOMBER IN TROUBLE FOUR R.A.F. OFFICERS LAND BY PARACHUTE. PILOT TAKES MACHINE SAFELY HOME. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) RUGBY, January 12. Four R.A.F. officers “from a British bomber which had developed engine trouble, landed by parachute in fields near Axminster, in Devon, last night. The pilot remained at his post and was able to bring his crippled machine to a safe landing at its base in Kent. Distress flares were dropped just before the men jumped, but the parachute descents were unobserved in the darkness. All four men landed safely, widely apart.