MET & BROKEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1940, Page 5

MET & BROKEN

ENEMY RAIDERS BOUND FOR LONDON PURSUIT BY HURRICANES AND SPITFIRES.. ENEMY LOSSES IN MEN AND MACHINES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, September 1. Early in the afternoon a large force of enemy planes were seen flying towards London. British fighter squadrons intercepted the enemy who, after a short scrap, broke up and made for’the coast, pursued by Hurricanes and Spitfires.

The fall of many bombs was heard distinctly from a London residential suburb. At one stage, during a third London warning, German planes performed a circling movement. The sky was soon dotted with white shellbursts, stretching for miles along the borders of London before anti-aircraft fire and fighters drove off the raiders. The “all clear” after the third raid was given at 2.51 p.m. It is authoritatively stated that the destruction of 85 planes yesterday means that Germany lost about 212 crew personnel, compared with 12 British pilots lost.

A German fighter over the south-east coast today killed, with machine-gun fire, a British pilot who was parachuting to the earth. The bodies of a girl and boy were blown on to the roof of a church adjacent to their home during a raid on the London district last night. A mother and daughter were killed in the same area when a bomb fell into the back garden of their home. Eight people sheltering in a downstairs room were injured when a bomb fell on the pavement. Two babies were among those sent to hospital.

“THE POLICE SAY”

NO APPRECIABLE DAMAGE IN BERLIN. (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) BERLIN. September 1. An air raid alarm sounded at four minutes past midnight. The police say anti-aircraft fire prevented the bombing of the city. A few bombs fell on the outskirts. There was no appreciable damage.