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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1940

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GOERING BEGINS NEW MASS AIR ATTACKS Sharp Dog-Fights MASS

Over London

NAZIS CHASED TO DUNKIRK

British fighter pilots are now "beating up" the German air force again over Dunkirk beaches.

THE GERMAN AIR FORCE STEPPED UP ITS DAY OFFENSIVE AGAINST LONDON AND SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND YESTERDAY WHEN, FOR THE FIRST TIME, THIS WEEK, FORMATIONS OF FIGHTERS AND FIGHTER-BOMBERS RAIDED THE CAPITAL AND COASTAL AREAS IN PLACE OF THE SINGLE RAIDERS COMMON EARLIER IN THE WEEK.

It was revealed in London yes-0000000000� terday that three times in recent weeks Spitfires chasing German raiders on Britain back across the Channel shot some down within rango of their own. A.A. guns on the French.coast.

One Scottish squadrón in, one of these actions shot down one of <15 Messerschmidts which. they first sighted at 30,000 feet

Ramsgate, actually on Dunkirk beaches, and two -bthers In the sea.

Over

the

Another squadron which took part in one of the biggest of the Dunkirk air fights. during evacuation of the B.E.F., brought down two of 50 Messerschmidts they had chased from London, near, the French coast," while a sergeant pllot of a third squadron sent yet another Messerschmidt into the sea after a similar chase

Ruter.

TWELVE NAZI PLANES

SHOT DOWN

Twelve enemy air- craft were destroyed yesterday, says an Air Ministry communi- que. Eight British fighters were lost but the pilots of four are safe. Reuter.

SPAIN EXPECTED

CLEAR

TO STEER

OF AXIS WAR

WHILE NO OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT HAS BEEN MADE IN MADRID OR BERLIN, THERE IS GROWING CONVICTION THAT HITLER'S PERSUASIVE TONGUE HAS NOT PREVAILED AGAINST GENERAL FRANCO, AND THAT SPAIN'S ENTRY INTO THE WAR AT THIS STAGE IS EXTREMELY UNLIKELY.

It is interesting to note that the Madrid newspapers, apparently under official guid- ance, are saying nothing that could be inter- preted as preparing the people for entry into

the war.

are

At the same time, speculation. Most Spaniards, however, about the possible subjects of the well aware that their country Js. Hitler Franco talk, os about the facing 'serious moments and these attitudes adopted by either side at a time when food is most scarce 1s forbidden.

while over the frontier is tho'Ger- The background of the comman Army and around the coasts ment, however, is strongly re- the British Navy. 'miniscent of, that: whan „· Benor Suner went to Berlin-satisfac tion le axpressed that making, hor || Europe, but

In

Fesling now however is some- what brighter and the bollerin

The formations were between 20 and 50 strong though at one time two of the larger formations were grouped together.

British interceptor 'planes, which are now no longer taking the air outnumbered, engaged the enemy over London, Kentish inland towns, over the coast and over the Channel, and A.A. gunners were ́ busy, particularly in the Thames Estuary.

Crossing the coast at fantastic heights of 30,000-feet and above, some raiders succeeded in pene- trating to the London area, start- ing with a dive-bombing attack in an outer district at dawn and dropping bombs mostly at ran- dom in roads and on private commercial property.--

The proportion of raiders who carried bombs was not, it is believed, high.

Extent of the damage and the number of cacualties is not yet known but one high.ex-

BRITISH

DESTROYER

LOST

Two successes by Bri- plosive bomb caught a busy tish submarinos and the

street in the rush hour.

London Quiet

This increased enemy activity followed London's quietest night since the start of the mass night raids on September 7 and for for the first time London was not specifically mentioned in the Air Ministry communique.

It coincided with, though not necessarily associated with; the -apparent ending of Hitler's diplomatic journeying in wes- tern Europe, as with the Ger man disclosure of Italian par- ticipation in air attacks on Britain on Thursday night,

The German news agency re- port on yesterday's raids descri- bes them as "severe". and says German speed bombers discharg- ed heavy calibre bombs on "im- portant military targets" in Lon- don-Reuter.

Air Ministry Communique

An Air Ministry communique confirms that with British fighters

and AA guns constantly in ac- tions which crossed the south- cast const yesterday at intervals

tion most of the enemy forma-

heading in the direction of Lon- don were split up and dispersed. A few (onomy aircraft. Buc. ceeded In 'rozching the London area and bombs were dropped" (at a number of widely sopan

ated points there and in south- cast England.”.

Some Houses were hit and small number of people killed and others injured. Reuter-

PETAIN AND LAVAL

that General Marshal. Petain and Pierre La- Franco will succeed in guiding", val were expected back in Vichy "other" | the country safely through a dif- last evening, states a Vichy des

wise non cake laaining" "ground

Haulf altuation.--Router.

patch-Reuter.

ATTACK ON

CONVOY

night, off the South-East

Just before dusk last

Coast, a number of enemy

planes launched a mass barrage balloons. attack on a convoy, and its

"There was a terrific battle as each of the ships of the convoy heavy anti-aircraft fire, poin-poms, and its escorts opened up with Lewis-guns and everything they

had

The racket "increased as Bri- fish fighters roared into the sky and zoomed to attack.

The Nazi 'planes dropped about thirty.bombs, all around the ships, but though some of them may have been hit with splinters and swamped with volumes of water as the bombs burst in the sea, no vessel received a direct hit- Reuter.

No details were given.

Re-

The British submarine gont destroyed an Italian sup- ply ship in the Mediterranean, while the submarine Swordfish off the French coast. sanka German torpedo-boat

The Italian supply ship was a

vessel of 6,000 tons.

loss of a British destroyer were announced by the The Admiralty, communique Admiralty in a brief com-cites the sinking of the supply munique issued in London ther example of the continuous ship and torpedo-boat as a fur- yesterday,

pressure which British naval forces maintain on coastal com- The destroyer H.M.S. Venet'a. munications in enemy waters.--y been sunk by an enemy mine. Reuter. 4

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