RELATIVE LULL
FALLING-OFF IN ENEMY ACTIVITY.
AIR MINISTRY REPORT.
(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.37 a.m.) RUGBY, August 14. “Enemy activity has been much less pronounced today,” states an Air Ministry communique. “An attack was made in th.e morning on barrage balloons at Dover and a lightship was bombed. An unsuc-
cessful attack also was made on an aerodrome in Kent, where two enemy dive-bombers were shot
down by anti-aircraft guns.” “R.A.F. fighters .also engaged the enemy at several points and inflicted casualties.
“In the afternoon, scattered bombs caused slight damage to a stationary train at Southampton and injured several people. A house at Hastings, was demolished and a number of people were injured, several fatally. “According to the reports so far received our fighters destroyed 15 enemy aircraft during the day. Four of our fighters are missing.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 August 1940, Page 5
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