BUSIER THAN EVER.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 303, 30 September 1940, Page 6

BUSIER THAN EVER.

LONDON’S DEFENCE GUNS.

ENEMY TRY NEW TACTICS. (Received This Day, 1.0 p.m.) LONDONI, September 29. ■ While our bombers, despite bad weather, were last night hammering Berlin and the invasion ports, London’s i anti-aircraft defences were, busier and more earsplitting than ever, preventing the enemy penetrating the central defences. Neutral correspondents report that Berlin had two alarms, the first lasting for an hour and the second for half an hour. A German communique claims that Berlin anti-aircraft guns brought down a British ’plane with an Australian crew and adds that the metropolitan area was not flown over. British attacks were directed against. the Ruhr, bombs falling on suburban residences in a Rhineland town and resulting in (numerous casualties.

Nazi raiders oyer London adopted various devices. A few tried cutting out their engines and gliding for a time, hut they were relentlessly followed by shells. Others turned and circled on; the outskirts of the capital. Some flew in from various directions in groups of three or four and dropped incendiary bombs in an attempt to start guidefires. Several incendiaries fell in a line in one area and others fell on several houses in a south-east town on the fringes of London. South-east coast towns were also raided and it is feared that several were trapped in cellars when two shops collapsed. One raider unsuccessfully bombed a trawler.