NEWS BY RADIO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1940, Page 6

NEWS BY RADIO

MORE GERMAN AIR RAIDS ON ENGLAND ALL PLANES SPEEDILY DRIVEN OFF. BRITISH RECONNAISSANCE FLIGHTS. The following Daventry reports have been rebroadcast by the New Zealand National stations: — German aircraft visited the East Coast again yesterday. Anti-aircraft guns and fighters were in action on the Suffolk, Norfolk and Yorkshire coasts and in the Thames Estuary. In all cases the raiders were quickly driven off and no bombs were dropped. As was the case on the previous day, no air raid warnings were sounded and people watched the white puffs of smoke from anti-aircraft fire. British planes last night carried out reconnaissance flights over western and north-western Germany and patrols visited German seaplane bases in the Heligoland Bight. A report states that planes raided an aerodrome on a German island, but according to a German report no damage was done. It is now known that when German planes visited the British coast on the previous day a small ship, the Keynes, was bombed and sunk. Not all the German planes, however, returned, as one bomber landed in Denmark with 50 holes in its fuselage and the crew were interned. THE WESTERN FRONT. Bitterly cold weather has been experienced on the Western Front during the past 24 hours. In spite of this, French aircraft carried out numerous reconnaissance flights over the lines. A German plane was brought down, the third in two days. German reconnaissance planes were reported over north and north-eastern France.