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TWENTY NAZI PLANES

SHOT DOWN IN ATTACKS ON BRITAIN Fifteen Within Half an Hour DURING UNSUCCESSFUL RAID ON DOVER ROYAL AIR FORCE OFFENSIVE CONTINUED VIGOROUSLY Twenty German planes for certain and possibly three more were shot down in raids on Britain yesterday, 15 within half an hour when the Germans made an attack with dive-bombers on Dover, a Daventry broadcast states. A force of 30 German dive-bombers, protected by 50 Messerschmitts, took part. They were engaged by Spitfires and Hurricanes and the withering fire of British aircraft and anti-aircraft fire completely spoiled the bombing attack. R.A.F. bombers carried out further raids on military objectives in northern and western Germany on Sunday night. Among the objectives were oil depots, docks and goods yards. Seventeen aerodromes in Germany, Holland, Belgium and Northern France were also attacked. Three British machines are missing. Oil tanks at Cherbourg were bombed by planes of the Coastal Command. A daylight attack was made on an aerodrome in Holland. On the way back, these aircraft met four enemy fighters, one of which was shot down All the British machines returned. BRITISH DESTROYER SUNK Another Ship Brings Down Two Bombers In an engagement between German aircraft and British destroyers, H.M.S. Wren, a vessel cf 1,100 tons, was hit by a bomb and sank. Another destroyer shot down two German bombers.

RAID OVER WALES LASTS FOR THREE HOURS AND A HALF. LONDON, July 29. Many raiders participated in the longest raid Wales has had since the outbreak of the war. It lasted three hours and a half. Eleven bombs fell in one district, slightly damaging a farm building, and others fell in open country. Four heavy bombs fell in another district. AIR POWER IMPORTANCE STRESSED IN BRITAIN HOW TO HASTEN HOUR OF VICTORY. EXPANSION THAT MUST TELL. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 28. There is growing insistence in Press comment on Hie vital ■work of air power in hastening the hour of victory over Nazi terrorism. The air correspondents of Sunday newspapers dwell on the gradual swingover of the 'scales of production in Britain’s favour. Full confidence is expressed that the British lead in quality will be maintained. The “Sunday Times” devotes a leading article to the subject under the heading, “Air Power Will Win.” Observing how the war news is now air news, it says: “Nor do appearances belie the facts. At any moment some new German stroke may bring the armies or navies into prominence. But today neither one nor the other can avail without air power. “France lost her fine armies because she had no adequate air force. Poland failed, too, before her. We ourselves were kept out of Holland and southern Norway, despite our great naval superiority, by reason of Germany's superiority in the air. Furthermore, as the war proceeds it is to air power that we must look for means of taking the offensive. Therefore; the need for building many more aircraft than Germany possesses is disputed by no one. PRODUCTION AND USE. “Production, however, is only one part of the problem. The other is the best use of aircraft. Some uses are marked and inescapable, but there are others about which the balance of political and even of expert opinion may vary considerably. Britain stands in a better posture 'than her enemy for securing the best use of her available air resources because of the organisation of her air defences being based on recognition of three independent but co-operative arms. “In Germany, for instance, where socially and politically the tradition of the army dominates, the air force has been the least valued, above all for purposes of army co-operation. In Britain, which is the first country to place its Air Ministry on a separate footing from the War Office, the air force, while indispensable as an adjunct both of the army and the navy, is in its main use an independent striking arm, in which capacity it is essential that it should be allowed to develop freely strategy and tactics of its own. “Today, with the British Navy and the German Army each supreme in its own sphere, yet with neither able to penetrate the enemy's territory, this British conception may well offer the best way round the deadlock. We ought boldly to develop it. “Daily and nightly the offensives which the R.A.F. conducts against enemy objectives point mainly toward supremacy in the air and victory in the war. When we have magnified our effort many times, as we can and ought to do, the war will end with Germany’s prostration.” BRITAIN NOT INVESTED. Mr J. L. Garvin, in the Sunday “Observer,” writes: “They speak of the siege of Britain. Let us distinguish. We are assailed. We are not shut up. We are neither invested nor

beleagured. Our island is a fortress with a difference. Its maritime connections are open wide, as they ever were. Its shipping and sea power range the oceans. After more than 10 months of war our mercantile tonnage is larger than ever. The Navy, in all its annals, has never held more potent command. The military forces of the Empire can be carried surely from every part or to any part. Without ceasing, supplies from every continent and from round the globe come to this island. “We are fighting this war, near and far, not as a surrounded fortress but as a historic world Power which has Britain as its main base. If Britain was besieged in the ordinary sense of being surrounded, she would be unready. Her world communications would be cut off. By that fact, the whole Empire would be broken. Instead, we retain both by sea and air the widest powers of attack and coun-ter-attack. This both Germany and Italy know to their cost. “While we hold out at Home we can create a new military power able to take strong offensive action overseas in the wider battle for the Empire. These truths apply directly to the immense theatres of the Mediterranean, North Africa, and beyond. These should be our arenas of initiative and attack.” SUNK ON PATROL FATE OF H.M.S. WREN. (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, July 29. His Majesty’s destroyer Wren has been lost through enemy action. The Admiralty has announced that H.M.S. Wren was hit with a bomb during an action between British patrolling destroyers and enemy planes. The Wren subsequently sank. H.M.S. Montrose shot down two bombers in this engagement. A British official wireless message states that the Wren was completed in 1919. Her displacement was 1,120 tons, and her speed 34 knots. Her main armament consisted of four 4.7inch guns and six torpedo tubes. FIFTEEN TO ONE ENEMY & BRITISH LOSSES. (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, July 29. The Air Ministry has announced that eight enemy bombers and seven fighters were shot down on the South-East coast. One of our machines was lost. SCHOOL DAMAGED WOMAN KILLED IN NORTH-EAST TOWN. (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) LONDON, July 29. Bombs fell in a north-east town, damaged a school and killed a woman. Several other houses were destroyed. Bombs fell in three places in NorthWest England. SHARP ENCOUNTER OVER SOUTH-EASTERN ENGLAND. RAIDER SHOT DOWN AND OTHERS CRIPPLED. LONDON, July 29. A raider was shot down into the sea in flames and several others are believed to have been crippled in a sharp air battle over the south-east of England this morning, in which a large number of planes participated. The battle alternated over the land and sea at a groat height. A raider dropped a number of incendiary bombs in a Midland town last night. One fell in a bedroom in which three children were sleeping, but it was quickly extinguished. Such of the cable news on this page as is so headed has appeared in “The Times,” and is cabled to Australia and New Zealand by special permission. It should be understood that the opinions are not those of "The Times" unless expressly stated to be so.

FIERCE BATTLE FAILURE OF ATTEMPTED SURPRISE GALLANT WORK BY BRITISH FIGHTERS. HEAVY BAG OF NAZI PLANES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10,35 a.m). RUGBY, July 29. An Air Ministry communique states: “Enemy, bombers, escorted by fighters, attacked a harbour on the south-east coast this morning, and a strong formation of R.A.F. fighters int-rcepted the enemy. Reports so far received show that our fighters shot down eight enemy bombers and seven fighters. Although several of our aircraft were damaged in this fierce engagement only one was lost. An enemy bomber was shot down over the south of England during last night’s raid. "Attempting a surprise on a southeast coast harbour, 30 Junkers 87 divebombers, protected by 50 Messerschmitts, got the worst of it in half-an-hour’s battle. Strong forces of Spitfires and Hurricanes swept up to meet the raiders and within a few minutes the air was filled with battling aircraft. So harassed were the Nazi airmen that their bombing aim was spoiled, and in addition 15 of them were destroyed at a cost of one British fighter missing and several damaged. Honours went equally to the Spitfires and Hurricanes. Spitfires from one squadron destroyed four Messerschmitts and one bomber, while Hurricanes from another squadron accounted for four bombers and one fighter.”

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1940, Page 5

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TWENTY NAZI PLANES Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1940, Page 5

TWENTY NAZI PLANES Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1940, Page 5

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