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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 July 1940, Page 5

-.JGETS .. nD A FIVE MESSERSCHMITTS SHOT DOWN. SEVEN OTHERS DAMAGED. On Sunday night, a Daventry broadcast reports, British bombers were I again over Germany, in spite of poor visibility. An Air Ministry communique states that damage was done to oil tanks, railway yards, railway junctions, aerodromes, and several other targets. In France a formation of Hurricanes encountered 17 Messerschmitts and shot down five and damaged seven others. GERMAN RADIO STATIONS OFF THE AIR. DURING “UNSUCCESSFUL.” RAID. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON. July 1. The Hamburg and Bremen radios faded out at 9.20 o’clock last night during an account of “unsuccessful” attacks by Royal Air Force bombers. The stations at Konigsberg, Stuttgart, Breslau, Saarbruecken, Vienna, Frankfurt, Prague, Cologne, Munich and Berlin went off the air at 9.45 p.m. PLANES ASTRAY BOMB CARGOES DROPPED IN SWISS BOGS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) BERNE, July 1. Two bombers, the pilots of which had evidently lost their way and wanted to drop their cargoes where they would be least harmful, dumped 24 British bombs into peat bogs and wooded hills in the Swiss Alps. The planes then went off over France. GERMAN LOSSES TWELVE PLANES PROBABLY DESTROYED. (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 1. It is learned that Hurricanes of the R.A.F. Fighter Command shot down five Messerschmitts over France on Sunday and that seven others probably were destroyed, although they were not actually seen to crash.