AIR RAID WARNING
LANCASHIRE AND NORTH WALES. ’Nazi plane- driven off. NO BOMBS DROPPED.
(Received ..This Day, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON', November 17. The. Air Ministry and Ministry f6t* Heine Security announced this afternoon. “Air raicl .warnings in South Lancashire, Cheshire and North Wales were given shortly i after ■ 11 a. mi ?•' to-day > > when an enemy aircraft, apparently a Heinkel reconnaissance’ plane,’ was detected by the. Royal Air Force Observer, 'Cqrp% Anti-aircraft guns were in action near Manchester nn ,the Merseyside, ~where - British fighters' Wdritiip and drove away the enemy aircraft. No ? bombs were dropped. The ‘raiders passed’ signal was ’given 4 : aftei; a few minutes. “Enemy aircraft were also reported near the ( Shot-lands this morning,”-—British Official Wireless. • . . V
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 33, 18 November 1939, Page 5
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