DAY BOMBING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1941, Page 5

DAY BOMBING

! SLIGHT ENEMY ACTIVITY OVER BRITAIN i I ATTACKS IN COASTAL AREAS. LITTLE DAMAGE & FEW CASUALTIES. London had four alerts yesterday after a lull of four days in daylight, the 8.8. C. reports. A few bombs were dropped. Bombs were also dropped on a town on the East Coast but there was little damage and there were no casualties. Yesterday afternoon a number of enemy aircraft dropped bombs I through clouds on the coast of souih- : east England. No important damage I was reported and there were very few i casualties. NO NIGHT RAIDS J •I HALT ENFORCED BY WEATHER | — LONDON. January 28. _ ; '! There was a complete lull in the air! war over Europe last night. London! i had its eighth night running without ian alert. The R.A.F. carried out noi I operations over Germany because of’ i bad weather. ENEMY LOSSES THREE PLANES SHOT DOWN ■ * ON SUNDAY. It is now known that in addition to! the Junkers 88 shot down by a naval: j trawler on Sunday, two other enemy I planes, a Messerschmitt 110 and an-' * other Junkers 88 were shot -down by : : British warships on that day. On I Monday another bomber was brought down in Lincolnshire. LONDON ALERTS . WOMAN KILLED IN STREET. CHILDREN IN PLAYING FIELD ESCAPE. (Received This Dav. 10.30 a.m.) i LONDON, January 28. j An alert was sounded in London this I morning for the first time since Janu-! ary 23. A second alert, shortly before j lunch, was London’s 450th. The raider dropped a basket of in- j cendiary bombs, which members of j the A.R.P., the police and civilians i ( quickly extinguished. There were two more alerts in the!' afternoon and all were caused by! single raiders. !' A woman was killed in a street ! , when several high explosives were j ! dropped on a London residential area.l ! Many houses were damaged. One dfti three bombs'in one district fell in a school playing field, near some child-i ‘ ren who were sheltering. The bomb • ' fell on soft earth and no one was in- t jured.