PILOT’S ESCAPE.
BALED OUT BEFORE EXPLOSION.
PLANE HIT BY CANNONFIRE.
(Received This Day, 10 a.m.) LONDON, November 25,
A story is told of a Spitfire pilot who baled out over the Sussex coast after his plane had Been hit by cannonfire. The>» pilot, who had been fighting over Dover, was hit after breaking away from a second combat. Flames cam© from thq exhaust and 1 thee heat from the engine could be felt in the cockpit.
“I gave a full throttle, climbed to 2000 feet, rolled the aircraft over on its back and baled -out,” said the pilot. A few seconds afterwards the aircraft blew up.—British Official Wireless.
VESSEL SINKING.
SWEDISH STEAMER TORPEDOED.
BRITISH SHIP ALSO ATTACKED.
(Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.)'
NEW YORK, November 25
Tlie Maekay Radio reports that the Swedish steamer Anten was torpedoed at 7.30 a.m. (G.M.T.) on Saturday. A radio signal at 11.12 a.m. (G.M.T.) today announced that she was stijl afloat. The position was about 57 degrees 15 minutes north and 17 degrees 40 minutes west. She was breaking lip amidships. Thirteen men were still on hoard. There was only one life raft. The British ship Temple Inn was beings attacked by a submarine in 56 degrees 15 ■ minutes north and •08 degrees 40 minutes west at 11.45 a.m. (G.M.T.) to-day. ' '
TOLL ON NIGHT RAIDERS.
TWENTY-EIGHT THIS MONTH.
PREVIOUS FIGURES EXCEEDED
(Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, November 25.
• A third enemy bomber that was raiding Britain was destroyed last night in addition to the two previously reported as having been,brought down. The total night raiders brought down, so far this month was, up to dawn today, 28—two more than in the whole of October and three more than in the whole of September. Results so far this month compared with those of September and October aro even more favourable than the figures suggest, for the number of raiders sent over during darkness in the last three weeks seldom equalled the strength of the attacks in the two preceding months.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 39, 26 November 1940, Page 5
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