ANOTHER QUIET NIGHT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 October 1940, Page 5

ANOTHER QUIET NIGHT

FEW RAIDERS HEARD BY LONDONERS TWO ENEMY PLANES CRASH IN SEA. BUS MACHINE-GUNNED. IN KENT. (By Telegi-aph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, October 23. Last night was London’s quietest night since the bombing began. Only an occasional raider was heard and there was very restricted gunfire. A lifeboat rescued the pilot of a Messerschmitt which crashed into the sea near Hastings. Another lifeboat vainly searched for survivors of a German plane which crashed in flames some distance from the shore. Passengers flung themselves to the floor when a bomb-carrying Messerschmitt swooped down and machinegunned a bus climbing a steep hill on the Kentish coast this evening. No damage was caused and there were no casualties. Planes were reported over Liverpool and a north-western town, also the Midlands, where high explosive bombs were dropped. ISOLATED RAIDS CASUALTIES IN ONE PART OF LONDON. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.47 a.m.) RUGBY, October 23. An Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security communique states that enemy air activity today was confined to a few isolated attacks by single aircraft. Bombs were dropped on a town on the south coast and in two places in the London area. Only slight damage was done! and there were no casualties except in one place in the London area, where the number was very small. EVACUATION PLANS CHILDREN IN BERLIN. (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON. October 23. A message from Berlin says special trains have been booked to evacuate hundreds of thousands of children from Berlin.