GOOD SHOOTING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 September 1940, Page 5

GOOD SHOOTING

BY BRITISH ANTLAIRCRAFT BATTERIES ENEMY RAIDERS STOPPED IN THAMES ESTUARY. PLANE SHOT DOWN & ANOTHER BADLY DAMAGED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day. 9 a.m.) LONDON, September 2. German bombers and fighters tried to penetrate the Thames Estuary defences at 8 a.m., but were driven away by anti-aircraft fire, after which a formation of twenty planes again attempted to penetrate, but the gunfire was so accurate that one plane was seen to fall and another obviously was badly hit. A dogfight occurred and lasted 10 to 15 minutes. No bombs were reported on the Essex side of the river. The London warning came when the battle was ending. A nineteen-year-old German pilot shot down near the south-east coast said to his captors: “This is the first time I have been here and I expect it will be the last. You need’nt hurt me. I have no weapons.” He gave a five mark note to Chatham’s Spitfire Fund when passing through the station yesterday. The Mayor and Mayoress of a southeast town who were injured in a night raid, were in bed when a bomb hit their home and they fell through the floor, which collapsed, into a living room. They were rescued from the debris by A.R.P. workers. The Mayoress had two fractures.

OCCUPIED FRANCE EFFECT OF R.A.F. RAIDS. VICHY REPORTS DEATHS & DAMAGE. (Received This Day. 9 a.m.) VICHY. September 2. It is announced that the British R.A.F. bombed Chartres, near which their is a German air base. Two French civilians were killed. The R.A.F. damaged the port and the railway station at Boulogne and also the port and airfield at Cherbourg.