WITH BRITISH BOMBERS OVERHEAD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1940, Page 6

WITH BRITISH BOMBERS OVERHEAD

Extensive Fires Observed ENEMY PLANE £HOT DOWN BY GERMAI3 GUNS AFTER GETTING SIGNAL TO LAND

(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Dav, 11.55 a.m.) RUGBY, August 29. A number of British planes were over Greater Berlin last night, according to the German Official News Agency, and Press reports state that for three hours, while the bombers were overhead, the people of Berlin were in their shelters. A British bomber pilot reported seeing a. line, about halt a mile long, of what appeared to be white-hot tire. Attacking another target, a captain and his crew reported that after they made their attack, they saw fires fifty miles away, when on their return journey. Taking bearings from a sheet of water, one British raider dropped a stick of heavy bombs on works near the Texet See, one of Berlin’s lakes. Owing to haze, he was unable to determine the success of this attack, but twenty minutes later another pilot saw a fire at these works.

On their way out, a wing-commander and his crew saw a German ])lane shot down by its own defences. The enemy aircraft was approaching a German-occupied aerodrome, with navigation lights on. Two green lights, presumably a signal to land, flashed from the ground. Then searchlights caught the aircraft. Firing started and apparently hit the German plane, which dived vertically on the ground.