LITTLE ACTIVITY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 37, 23 November 1940, Page 5

LITTLE ACTIVITY.

SMALL DAMAGE; FEW' CASUALTIES. FRENCH CHURCH WRECKED. (Recoined This .Day, 9 a.m.) LONDON, November 22. The Air Ministry reports that enemy activity last night, was on a small scale. A few planes dropped bombs between dusk and midnight on several places in East Anglia. Widely-separated bombs were placed elsewhere, mostly in the southern half of England, causing little damage and few casualties. Two explosives wrecked the French Church of Notre Dame in. Leicester Square. While searching the debris of two bombed houses in a working district in the south-east of England a rescue squad heard a man’s voice saying: “Save my wife; never mind,mie.” The rescuers found the wife dead and 1 the invalid husband under the beams nearby, badly injured. iHc asked whether his wife was still alive and them died in the hospital.

LIVERPOOL HA§ TWO RAIDS. v

LONDON’S EARLY ALL CLEAR. TWO PLANES CRASH IN FLAMES/ LONDON, November 22. There was little enemy. air activity over Britain during the night, probably because of the bad weather. A few German raiders crossed the Channel early in- the night, but soon returned to their bases. The raiders* past signal was sounded unusually early in London. Later there was a second alert, followed by a quiet period, and then more, anti-aircraft fire. Liverpool had two short raids, and alarms were also given in the Midlands, the north-west, and East Anglia. One enemy bomber was destroyed and one of our fighters was lost. The losses apparently occurred after Spitfires had turned back a Heinkel during the afternoon. A Spitfire rammed the Heinkel, tearing off a wing. Both planes crashed near Faversham and all the members of the crews were killed. Firemen were running to put out the flames when a bomb exploded, killing one fireman and fatally injuring another.

It is thought that the pilot of the Spitfire may have been killed or badly wounded just as he was preparing to swerve away from the raider. Eight bombs in an East- Anglian town killed a woman and injured four others. A bomb hit an institution, killing a master and some of the inmates.

London’s barrage was in action on the outskirts of the city soon after the first alert on Thursday night. Raiders were also reported from Liverpool, the Midlands, and the south-west.