WORK OF THE GUNS
WELL OVER 400 RAIDERS DESTROYED EFFICIENT .ORGANISATION IN BRITAIN. PROTECTION OF INDUSTRIAL AREAS. (By Telegraph—Press Associaiton—Copyright) LONDON, Docember 3. The effectiveness of British antiaircraft fire is strikingly demonstrated by an official report, which says that up to the present antiaircraft gunners have brought down well over 400 enemy aircraft —more than 300 by day and over 100 by night. “The supply of anti-aircraft guns'is great, and growing,” the report says. “The high standard of efficiency is being increased by scientific research. “British ground defences have been planned to cover the whole of the United Kingdom and to give at all times the maximum possible protection to those areas whose safety is most vital to the war effort.”
NAZI ASSERTION 5,000,000 BOMBS DROPPED IN MONTH. BERLIN, December 3. The news agency stated that the Luftwaffe carried out 23 large-scale attacks on England last month. More than 5,000.000 explosive bombs were dropped, the nightly weight of which ranged between 100 and 600 tons.
RHINELAND RAID (Received This Day. 9.5 a.m.) LONDON. December 4. A small R.A.F. force bombed railways in the Rhineland last night.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 December 1940, Page 7
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