BATTLE OVER KENT
ELEVEN ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN TWO BRITISH FIGHTERS LOST BUT BOTH PILOTS SAFE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10.32 a.m.) RUGBY, November 27. “Our fighters shot down eleven enemy aircraft in a series of engagements which took place over Kent in the afternoon,” states a communique. “Two of our fighters were lost, but both the pilots are safe. ••A bomb was dropped on a place in Kent, but little damage was done and no one was hurt.
NO SCHOOLING CHILDREN IN DOVER AREA. COMPULSORY EVACUATION URGED. LONDON. November 26. The “Daily Express" raises one of the gravest problems arising from the blitzkrcig when it states that 600 to 800 children living in “Hellfire Corner” have net been to school for 178 days. The Dover council has decided to ask the regional commissioner, Mr Auckland Geddes, to order the compulsory evacuation of all school children in the municipality, as the motheis of the children still living in Dover flatly refuse to evacuate them.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1940, Page 5
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