ATTACKS ON BRITAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 June 1940, Page 5

ATTACKS ON BRITAIN

FURTHER ENEMY AIR RAIDS TWO NAZI MACHINES DESTROYED. ANOTHER DAMAGED SERIOUSLY. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, June 27. Enemy planes raided southeastern, north-eastern and south-western England, and also north-eastern Scotland during the night. There were heavy explosions .in northeastern England, where the raiders hid behind heavy clouds. Incendiary bombs were also dropped, causing small fires which were quickly extinguished.

Three bombs were dropped in northeastern Scotland, one falling near the house of a retired police inspector, who died from shock. The second wrecked a garage and partially demolished an adjoining house. The third fell in a nearby field. British fighters drove the raiders to sea.

Two more German bombers were destroyed and a third seriously damaged by British fighter planes last night. An Air Ministry spokesman said that the first bomber was sighted off tho south-east coast at midnight by the pilot of a Hurricane fighter, who had it pointed out to him by a tremendous concentration of searchlights, striking, first at the base of the plane and following it upward flight. He turned right and saw three enemy aircraft flying toward him, one of which was a Heinkel. A second broke off and he lost sight of it. He opened fire on the Heinkel at 4000 feet, and, after giving it a full burst, he saw a glow inside the plane. He followed it down and it appeared to be on fire; al 500 feet off the water he rose again and did not see if it hit the water. The second bomber was attacked by a Spitfire, which apparently fired a bomb in one of the racks. The third was sighted dead astern by a Blenheim, the gunner of which saw his tracer bullets hit the bomber.

Wave after wave of enemy aircraft sought to penetrate south-east England for three hours, using hig explosive and incendiary bombs. One man was cut by flying glass: most ol the bombs fell into the sea. In southwest England there were visits by hostile aircraft, but no bombs were dropped. In one district in Wales there were five bombs dropped, but. the damage was so little that there was almost no trace of the raid. In north-east England several people were treated lor shock and minor injuries.