EARLIER RAIDS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1940, Page 5

EARLIER RAIDS

MANY BOMBS DROPPED IN WALES ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN. LITTLE MATERIAL DAMAGE DONE. LONDON, June 30. Air raiders flew over the Midlands last night and dropped bombs, causing damage and several casualties. Others were reported over north-east and south-west England, also dropping bombs, but causing neither damage nor casualties. It is officially stated that enemy activity over Britain on Friday night was on a smaller scale. A few bombs were dropped in South Wales and near the east coast, but nothing of importance was achieved. The only casualty was one person slightly injured. The Air Ministry announced that one enemy bomber was shot down off the coast of Scotland by R.A.F. fighters. Early yesterday morning, however, a wide area of South Wales was concerned in raids and many bombs were dropped. Five casualties were reported, but again the material damage was only slight. Many of the German targets were far removed from military objectives. Nine bombs were dropped in one Welsh town. A German plane dropped one bomb in north-east Scotland, and broken windows were the only damage. A German reconnaissance plane which appeared over the south-west of England this morning is reported to have been shot down. It is also reliably reported that British fighters forced down an enemy bomber in the north-east of England in the first daylight raid in this area. Nine bombs fell near one north-east-ern town, which has been raided five nights in succession. A Berlin communique states: “Bomber units on June 28 and 29 attacked armament works and docks in southern and central England with visible success.” ENEMY ATTACKS LOSSES IN AIR FIGHTING. (British Official Wireless.) ! (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) RUGBY, June 30. An official R.A.F. communique, issued in Cairo, states that two raids by enemy aircraft were carried out on Port Sudan yesterday, but caused no material damage. One Italian bombei’ was shot down. R.A.F. bombers at dawn raided El Gubbi and registered direct hits on huts, tents and parked aircraft, causing considerable damage. The British aircraft were engaged by a large force of enemy fighters, one of which was shot down in flames and a second badly damaged. Two British aircraft were lost in the fight. The wreckage of an enemy aircraft has been washed up at Mersamuth. Various reconnaissances were successfully carried out.