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INCENDIARY BOMBS

MANY DROPPED WITH LITTLE EFFECT

UNARMED GAMEKEEPER : ARRESTS CREW.

FOLLOWING ON ENEMY FORCED LANDING.

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 9.50 a.m.) LONDON. August 23.

Enemy planes dropped nearly 200 incendiary bombs in rural areas ol south-west England this morning. Forty-five of these struck buildings of one form or other but little damage was sustained. Heavy anti-aircraft fire drove off a German raider attempting to cross the south-west coast.

When a bomber came down in a field in south-east England this morning. four members of the crew clambered on top and attempted to set fire to the machine, but were prevented from doing so by an unarmed gamekeeper. who took a pistol from one of the men. after which all were taken into custody. Two German airmen were picked up off the Scottish coast, after spending twelve hours in a rubber boat. Two companions had been washed away and drowned.

BALLOON BREAKS LOOSE CHURCH PINNACLE BROKEN IN LONDON. (Received This Day. 10.5 a.m.) LONDON. August 23. Breaking loose over North London, a barrage balloon, with its fins in shreds and the cable snapping like a whip, soared up and down for three hours before the cable twisted round the pinnacle of Saint Mark’s Church in Finsbury. The pinnacle crashed to the ground and the balloon finally broke away and quickly disappeared from sight. GERMAN REPORT (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) BERLIN, August 23. A communique states: "Our fighter formations attacked convoys, one off Berwick and the other in the Downs, and secured several hits on four merchantmen. They also bombed an aerodrome at Manstone. Some air fights developed in south-eastern England in the course of the day in which our fighters were successful. Fires and explosions showed the success of night attacks against several aerodromes in Cornwall and Wales, an aircraft factory at Reading and aero-engine works at Rochester. We continued the mining of British harbours. "British planes on the night of August 22 dropped bombs in West Germany and destroyed an apartment house and damaged several other houses. Some civilians were injured. The enemy on August 22 lost eleven planes and two balloons. Two of our planes are missing.”

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1940, Page 5

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Tapeke kupu
362

INCENDIARY BOMBS Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1940, Page 5

INCENDIARY BOMBS Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1940, Page 5

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