OFFICIAL REPORT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 August 1940, Page 7

OFFICIAL REPORT

ENEMY SCATTERED & DRIVEN BACK INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING. SOME FATAL AND OTHER CASUALTIES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10.5 a.m.) RUGBY, August 30. An Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security communique says: — "Large forces of enemy aircraft crossed the south-east coast this morning in three successive waves at short intervals. Our air defences went into action and the battle which developed resulted in the enemy being scattered and driven back. A small proportion approached the London area and attempted unsuccessfully to attack several aerodromes. In the home counties German aircraft, too, were engaged by our fighters and dispersed. “Bombs were dropped indiscriminately in districts in Kent and Surrey. Slight damage is reported and lhe number of casualties is small, but in-

cludes some killed.” OIL BOMBS NEW INCENDIARY TYPE USED BY GERMANS. LONDON. August 30. A new type of German incendiary bomb has been found in London. Il consists of a section filled with crude oil and a section for igniting it, and it provides fire-fighters with a new problem, because water will not extinguish the burning oil. necessitating more supplies of sand. The use of the new bombs is probably due to the necessity for Germany to economise in magnesium and thermite, which are used in the common type of incendiary.