RAIDERS SENT DOWN: ONE EVERY TWO MINUTES
DETERMINED EFFORTS by German raiders to force their way through London's anti-aircraft defences yesterday again proved a costly failure.
SPITFIRES AND
HURRICANES
DESTROYED RAIDERS AT THE RATE OF ONE EVERY TWO MINUTES IN THE MORNING.
KING SEES
In a one-hour battle over South-East Eng-FIGHTERS GO
land, pilots of the Fighter Command shot
down 34 bombers and fighters, definitely, INTO ACTION
and probably several others.
Up to that stage, nine British fighter 'planes had been shot down or were missing; but the pilots of six had reported safe.
In a later raid, five German ‘planes were shot down in ten seconds!
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RATIONING
IN NORWAY OF CLOTHES
Rationing of tex- files, shoes and cloth-
ing of all sorts has been introduced in ©Norway, Ban Oslo de- spatch to the official German news agency said yesterday. Reuter.
SCUTTLING TEST CASES DECISIONS
to decide
ITALIAN
FLEET NOT LOOKING
Fleet
"The British trailed its coat through the Mediterranean with- out being able to get any closer to the Italian Fleet than 150 miles, when the Italians demonstrated their control of Mare Nos- trum by turning and run- ning to their harbours for tea," acidly o commented semi-official London cir- cles yesterday.
The London press yesterday carried pictures of an earlier clash in the Mediterranean. They show- ed the destruction and sinking of one of Italy's fastest cruisers, the Bartolomeo Colleoni, which was THERE WAS A REMINDER OF sent to the bottom by. H.M.A.S. THE TIMEB YESTERDAY FOR Sydney.
LAW THE LONDON
COURTS
Italian One picture shows the WHEN THEY DEALT WITH cruiser with its bow blown away. THREE TEST-CASES INVOL- Another shows her disappearing
THE ·SCUTTLING OF beneath the waves.-Reuter. The King and Queen VING
GERMAN MERCHANTSHIPS. saw the Fighter Com-Lloyd's won all three test-cases mand of the R.A.F. in which were brought
whether it should pay for the in- action against the Luft-sured cargo carried by these ships, waffe yesterday when they one of which got home, the other
two being scuttled.
when paid a private visit to The Court decided that
and the German ships left Vigo fighter headquarters, near|
Rio they were no longer on the "common adventure".. covered by Their Majesties were touring the policies,
of an headquarters when news enemy raid was received.
elaborate and They saw the amooth-working plan of defence operation being put into action with orders being flashed to key points.
Formations of Junkers bombers, tempted to launch simultaneous London. heavily protected by Messersch-jattacks on several R.A.F.; aero- midt fighters, approachéd Dover dromes. cliffs early yesterday. About
German three hundred
'planes
were used in this mass attack, in waves of twenty or thirty 'planes
05
Our A.A. guns and fighter aircraft engaged the enemy who were driven back after intensive air battles.
some
Bombs were dropped causing
at a time, and aerodromes, usual, were the principal targets.jslight damage to one factory in
Most of the fights were over the Thames Valley where a num- Kent and Sussex, but a number oflber of persons were injured.
་་
Their Majesties remained to luncheon with Air Marshal Sir
the raiders were intercepted at Reports indicate that elsewhere Hugh Dowding, the Commander- sea over Beachy Head.
the number of casualties was in-Chief, and his officers. Reu-
The Polish Squadron which has slight. During the previous ter. been so successful this week night's attacks minor dan age was again shot down six raiders and done and a small number injured probably accounted for two more as the results of bombs dropped
in a district in Wales..
Spectacular Fight
of a
Off Dungeness
Twelve, Hurricanes engaged, loose formation of about twenty Crowds in the streets. bombers flying over the sea of south-east coast town last -even- Dungeness at about 15,000 feet ing watched a spectacular battle with forty accompanying fighter in the air when R.A.F. "fighters,į rising in tiers up to 24,000 feet. with machine-guns, blazing-away, In the dog-fights that follow-dived into a force of German ed, six. Messerschmidts were de bombers and scattered them right finitely shot..down two more and left.
probably destroyed and two The German machines fled out more damaged.
serschmidt fighters.
1,000 Have Narrow
Escape In Shelter
A Dornier bomber
London's Fourth
And Fifth Warnings
TAKING CHILDREN TO SAFETY
SENT TO CANADA HAVE AR- RIVED SAFELY.
A warm reception is being pre-
ONE-MINUTE AIR ALARMS
THE MINISTRY OF HOME SECURITY ANNOUNCES THAT Both their departure, and their HENCEFORTH AIR-RAID SIR- scuttling, the Court found, was; ENS WILL BE SOUNDED ONLY ordered by the German Govern-FOR ONE MINUTE, INSTEAD ment, bringing them within the OFFOR TWO.
There will be no change in the Ecope of the clause of “restraint]
which by Princes and Peoples" not co-"Raiders Passed" signal, vered by Insurance policles. will be sounded as usual for two Reuter.
minutes,-Reuter.
R-A-F. BOMBERS AGAIN ATTACK
FIAT WORKS
MILITARY OBJECTIVES concealed in
SO FAR, 1,409 CHILDREN German forests, and important military oil installations, were again the principal targets attacked by the R.A.F., states an Air Ministry communique.
and content in their new homes
London.
in
They also raided Emden docks,
goods-yards at Hamm and Soest NEW PHASE
land a number of German and
Dutch aerodromes.
to sea, except at least two which pared in South Africa for child The famous Spitfire Auxiliary dived into the sea, one in finmes. ren now on their way there from Squadron-accounted for five Mes Two airmen baled out and a Britain.
tug put out to sea with a naval A cable assuring Mrs, Waterson, The communique adds our bombers start- One Hurricane squadron, de-surgeon to rescue them. — Reu: wife of the South Africa High fending their own aerodrome, shot] ter.
Commissioner, that everything is ed fires in the Hartz Mountains and the Black down one bomber, and two Mes-
being done to make them happy Forest, and bombed synthetic oil plants at serschmidts.
has given great satisfaction Stettin, tanks at Kiel and refineries at Ham- The fourth warning in the Mrs. Waterson and South Afri- burg and Regensburg, on the Danube... London area ended at 10.14 p.m. can officials are arranging for the was shot but a Afth warning went at 10:30 despatch of another large batch of British children to South! down into the sea yesterday P.m. morning, some 12 miles from the The Nazis adopted a new tech-Africa-Reuter. coast.
A ship which went out tonique for their London area raid- who eye-witness look for survivors was machine-ing, says an
the of gunned by a Messerschmidt which watched from the top dived down on it.
Reuter building.
One 'plane would drop a
jected to heavy bombing by air- PRESS OF THE WORLD ON THE triple flare like three brilliant.
U.S.DES- -white lights simply strung
craft of the Bomber Command, TRANSFER together. While this was de
and Fleet Air Arm bombers, alsoTROYERS TO BRITAIN CON: The London Stock Exchung attacked gun positions at Cape TINUES TO ARRIVE IN LON- illu. scending low enough to
was favourably influenced yes-Gris Nez and the harbour at Ca-DON. minate his target the raider
terday by Mr. Churchill's Com- would fly away seeking to
mons speech, Consequently evade the searchlights. As soon as the flare was in posi-market was bright and active and no sign of the usua tion the enemy plane returned there was
week-end realisations. Gold-min- -and dropped bombs while ings, oils and home industriak experienced a better demand
a
One thousand people in a Lon- don square public shelter had narrow, escape when their shelter
from sustained a direct hit bomb, it is now revealed,
Only two people were taken to hospital. Reuter.
London's Third Air Raid Warning
¡A.A. guns roared in reply.
STOCK EXCHANGE BUOYANT
Reuter.
Another force of our bombere again attacked the Flat aero-en-
gina works in Turin.
IN WAR
The port of Boulogne was sub- MORE
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COMMENT BY
OF 50
THE
The newspaper "Le Journal," Three of our aircraft have not in unoccupied France, calls it the "most outstanding political event returned.
the which has taken place in world. since the collapse of France's military: power.”
Baltic Coast Raided
The great Fiat: aeroplane face The Soviet newspaper "Pravda"
•
vantage.
The air-raid warning sound-High explosive and incendiary which caused improvements · ir tory in Turin was again heavsays that this opens a new phase od in the London area at 5 p.m. bombs were reported to have prices in view of some shortage.ly damaged by R.A.F. bombers in the war. for the third time yesterday, at boen dropped on a number of Gilt-edged were fractionally high-|^ which made the 1,000-milėj The collaboration of the two ralders approached the Thamer streets in the London area, Houses er and foreign issues mostly fight, Including the double English-speaking nations, it Estuary.
were demolished, fires started and steady and unchanged. Wall crossing.of the Alps, to accom- continues, must unquestionably When British fighters swooped some casualties caused-Reuter. Streats was narrowly irregular.plish the attack, says the Air prave to be to their mutual-ad- on the raidors, five German ma-
Ministry news sorvica. chines were shot down intense÷
38 Up To 6. P.M.
Although the raiders were sub- The war is now assuming. conds:
Jected to interise opposition from more stubborn and prolonged Hundreds of German bombersi It is officially announced that the London area, and fighters - wore engaged In German losses in attacks on Eng- In this attack only slight dam ground defences all were safely character. Reuter.
back in England before dawn. the raid.
land up to 6 p.m. yesterday were age was done, and no casualties In the meantime other bomber
reported. Eye-witnesses declared the ser-38 'planes.
forces were penetrating deep into Later in the afternoon tho ies of dog-fights which developed British losses were 15 fighters,
Germany, attacking objectives as over a widespread area above the but seven of the pilots were safe. enemy, made a further attack far apart as the Baltic const and
when smaller, forces of aircraft Thames Estuary was the biggest-Reuter,
the. Black Forest. crossed the north. Kent. coast scon in the area.
In five formations, three of which remained south of the Thames Estuary.
The third-warning in the Lon» don area onded at 5.39:p.m.
Further Raids
WEYGAND IN AIR ACCIDENT
'On the Baltic; the Politz dil planta were heavily bombad:for A VICHY MESSAGE SAYS GENERAL WEYGAND the second time and objectives} THAT
! hidden in the C:BlackForest WAS NOT HURT WHEN THE
again hammared..
PLANE HE WAS TRAVELLING
An Air Ministry communique Official Communique says early yesterday afternoon In this attack fire was caused enemy aircraft crossed the Kent to an 'industrial- organisation con
Our the north bank of the Thames The oil storage. Installation at IN OVER-TURNED ON, LAND- An Air Ministry communique const in large, formations. says a large force of enemy nir- A.A. defences engaged the enemy but no casualties are reported, Regensburg, near the former ING AT THE LIMOGES AERO- craft crossed the coast of Kent ut all paints and his aircraft There have been no reports of Czechoslovak border, was alED DROME. in the morning and, splitting up were driven back by our fighters bombs dropping elsewhere dur lamong the night's objectives,
Reuter. Into a number of sections, at-before they could penetrate to ing this attack-Reuter.
He was on his way to inspect oops.Reuter.
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