ONE GERMAN PLANE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1940, Page 6

ONE GERMAN PLANE

- SHOT DOWN EVERY 42 MINUTES R.A.F. PERFORMANCE DURING PAST TWO MONTHS. NAZI PRODUCTION RATE BALANCED. (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, September 30. Major Walter Elliott, in a speech, said the R.A.F., during the past two months, had shot down one German plane in every forty-two minutes, which was the present rate of German production. NAZI REPORT ALLEGED HAVOC IN BRITISH CITIES. “NO MILITARY DAMAGE” IN GERMANY. (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, September 30. A German communique claims that great destruction and fires were caused in London, Liverpool, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Leith and Midlands towns. It says that single enemy planes reached Brandenburg last night and that “some bombs were dropped, but there was no military damage. There were many civilian casualties. x CASUALTIES IN COLOGNE (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, September 30. The Bremen radio announced that several British planes raided thicklypopulated residential quarters in Cologne. Incendiary and high-explosive bombs caused sixteen casualties, including four deaths. PRISONER IN BRITAIN SON OF GERMAN AIR ADVISER. A DISCARDED DECORATION. (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, September 30. The Vicar of Maple Durham, the Rev E. L. Macassey, reveals in his parish

magazine that the son of one of Hitler’s most eminent air advisers has been taken prisoner in Britain. The Vicar adds that the young man, when captured, ripped off a special Nazi decoration and said: “I’ll not want this ever again.”