DAYLIGHT RAIDERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 November 1940, Page 6

DAYLIGHT RAIDERS

MANY DRIVEN BACK AT COAST TWENTY REACH LONDON. MET BY BRITISH FIGHTERS. < By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 11.55 a.m.) LONDON. November 1. London had three alerts this morning. During the second, two large formations crossed the SouthEast coast The anti-aircraft defences went into action and planes were later seen returning across the coast. Several bombs fell in the outskirts of London. In the third alert, four persons werei killed and the number of injured is believed to be six. Italian heavy bombers were among the formations which crossed the coast this morning. British fighters scattered the enemy over the sky. Fifty enemy planes crossed Ihe coast at Dungness this afternoon and twenty of them succeeded in reaching London, where they were met by fighters and turned back. Two of the raiders were pursued and sent spinning to earth. Among those killed in London last, night were three sisters and their husbands. who died together when two houses were demolished. Three youths playing cards in a surface shelter were killed by a blast when a bomb exploded in the roadway.