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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 11, 1940

AIR FIGHTS WATCHED BY CROWDS NAVY'S

FIFTY PLANES flying at a great height passed

FASTEST

over the London area in the fourth of the day's Ger- FIGHTER

man raids. British fighters went up and a terrific battle developed. The Nazi formation was broken up and two large bombers fled with Spitfires on their tails.

Can Meet Any Foe A two-seat fighter dive- bomber is now in service Two German planes were seen to dive vertical- with the Fleet Air Arm. ly apparently out of control. Spectators at a grey- This aeroplane, the Ful- hound race meeting watched anti-aircraft shells

mar, is much the fastest bursting round four enemy 'planes. After ten min-machine ever to go into utes they saw the raiders disappear at a height of service with the Royal about 30,000, feet.

Navy, although its exact performance cannot be mentioned.

A few minutes later. with the warning still 011. bookmakers opened betting on a new race.

Football With A Thril

A football crowd,

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in their ex- citement, roared "Shoot" and "Gu through on your own" in one Lon-

EMPTY HOTEL RATES CUT

It is powered with a Rolls- Royce Merlin motor of the type used by the Hurricane, Spitfire, and Deflant. In fact, the Fulmar has much in common with these Ventnor hotel and boarding-fighters, except that it is a bigger don area as they watched a Spit-house-keepers who are suffering aeroplane and can carry a useful

through lack of holiday-makers load of bombs. the council, be called upon to pay Arm has an will, according to ધ decision of In the Fulmar the Flest Air only

neroplane which is rates; if their properties are un-and can

one-third of the current superior to anything in its class, occupied.

confidently meet any- thing the enemy can send against

fire pilot take on two bombers.

"It was amazing how we used soccer term:." one of the crowd said. "The fighter was like a tricky little winger dribbling into position.

"He waltzed to the spot he wanting the fact

This will apply, notwithstand-it.

that the ratepayer ed, then, whizz. he was dead on leaves his furniture the mark with his shooting and occupied premises,

on the un- CHECK ON TRADERS but will not smoke poured from one of the apply to a ratepayer who leaves bombers."

The Food Price Investigation premises of his or her own ac-Committees-there is one in each After a thrilling dog-fight, which cord. A similar concession will of the 13 defence arças-are now lasted nearly half an hour, a Spit- | be made in respect of war-empowered to compel traders to fire was seen by thousands of damaged property and property produce their books and ac- spectators to come down and crash in a dangerous area.

on some houses. Several of the

houses were badly damaged. About the same time another 'plane, be- lieved to be German, fell some miles away. Two parachutists were seen to descend.

"R.A.F. Pilots Are Hot"

"British fighters are hot," said the twenty-year-old pilot of a Messerschmidt 109 which crashed In a field in the south-east during the battle.

Badly burned about the head and chest, the plot was taken to a doctor. His wounds were treat- ed, but he declined an injection of morphla, saying, "we" are as brave as British pilots."

One man was. killed and two others were: injured, but not seriously, and four houses were damaged when a stick of bombs was dropped across a residen- tial area in a Thames Estuary town.

Warden's Escape

During the second raid on the south-east coast a wave of bomb- ers dropped six high explosive. bombs on a coastal town. Houses in three roads were wrecked or damaged, windows shattered, doors torn from their hinges, and iron railings wrenched from the ground. Gas and water mains suffered.

Two persons, Mr. F. G. Golding and Mr. Perey Dennis, were kill ed, and several injured.

An air-raid warden, Mr. Albert CS" Shotbolt, had a wonderful

cape. As bombs fell near him he jumped from his cycle and scrambled into a front garden A few hedge..where he lay flat. seconds latera bomb exploded in the roadway, barely ten. yards His cycle was shattered away. with shrapnel, and his-haversack which containing his gas-mask, was slung across his shoulder, bullets. Mr. was riddled with

Shotbolt was unhurt.

A. A. Barrage Coming up the Thames Estuary in perfect formation for the fourth attack, forty or more bombers were turned back by an AA. barrage and, as they swung in- land, the barrage followed them.

The formation did not break up entirely, and fully half of the bombers made a second attempt, only again to meet with terrific resistance from the ground de-

fences.

At this point R.A.F. fighters made their appearance and dived right through the leading Ger- man 'planes. There was a few minutes of fierce Achting, and then the raiders made off.

The attack was the most de- termined. that has been made, the Germans holding: together. more resolutely than any previous for- mation.

counts.

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