FEW BOMBS DROPPED
IN BRITAIN ON THURSDAY NO ONE KILLED OR SERIOUSLY INJURED. FIGHTERS LOST ON BOTH SIDES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.32 a.m.) RUGBY, November 28. An Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security communique states: ‘‘No one has been killed or seriously injured in daylight raids today. Enemy fighters and fighter-bombers were flown at a great height over Kent and the Thames Estuary on several occasions during the clay, but very few bombs were dropped. Several houses were damaged in one town in Kent. Five enemy fighters have been shot down and six of our fighters have shot down and six of our fighters have been lost. GERMAN REPORTS MENTION OF AN ATTACK ON PLYMOUTH. (Received This Day. 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, November 28. A German communique claims that bombs were dropped on London, Avonmouth and various aerodromes, despite bad weather. “British planes,” it is added, “damaged a number of houses in Western Germany. Four persons were killed and several injured.” The Berlin radio stated that the chief target in England last night was Plymouth. A hundred tons of bombs were dropped round the harbour, resulting in great havoc and a number of fires.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 November 1940, Page 6
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