SPORADIC RAIDS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 July 1940, Page 6

SPORADIC RAIDS

VARIOUS PARTS OF BRITAIN BOMBED NOT MUCH DAMAGE DONE. CASUALTIES IN SCOTTISH TOWN. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, July 9. It is officially stated that there were sporadic raids by isolated enemy aircraft in North-East and South-East England and on the East Coast of Scotland last night and early this morning. A number of high-explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped, but there was little damage. The A.R.P. quickly dealt with a considerable number of incendiary bombs in a south-east town. There were a few casualties on a Scottish town. In the afternoon, air raiders visited Wales, South-East, South and SouthWest England. The Welsh raider killed two persons and injured another before gunfire drove him oil'. An antiaircraft battery in the South Coast put up a high-speed record by shooting down a Messerschmitt with eight shells, in half a minute, at a range of 6,000 to 7.000 yards. Spitfires then drove oil other fighters. Raiders on South-West England dropped bombs near a town and also a hundred incendiary bombs in a field, where cattle rushed about in panic. Raiders from the north-west encountered strong fighter opposition high over the South-East Coast. The Germans flew on westward, hotly engager, by fighters. EIGHT NAZI PLANES SHOT DOWN IN BRITAIN YESTERDAY. Eight German machines were shot down in Britain yesterday, Daventry reports.