RAIDS OVER BRITAIN

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 42, 29 November 1940, Page 5

RAIDS OVER BRITAIN

TWO HUNDRED PLANES NO EXTENSIVE DAMAGE PEW CASUALTIES REPORTED

(United Press Association—Copyright'll (Received This Day, 11 a.m.) LONDON, November 28. It is reliably estimated that 200 raiders operated against England last night without causing extensive damage.

A single raider this morning dropped a dozen explosives on a south-eastern town, and then showers of incendiary bombs. The latter burnt themselves out with slight damage. Eig&t explosives nearby straddled three roads on a housing estate, a few houses being damaged, but with no casualties. Bombs fell on another town after Hurricane fighters had driven off two Messerschmitts which unloaded their cargo tp escape the attack. A maternity home was damaged and many windows were blown out over a large area.

Anti-aircraft guns were in action and fighters went up, when several enemy formations crossed the south-east coast this morning. Some of the raiders turned back.

' Several small formations of raiders again crossed the coast this afternoon, but a number turned back after being , engaged by fire from the ground.

A Spitfire shot down a German fighter-bomber in flames over the Isle of Wight this afternoon. The crew baled out. Six children and four adults were killed in a village 1 A south-west town was raided last night.