AIR AND NAVAL BATTLE NEAR SYLT.
BOMBS DROPPED.
Towns Dark, Sky Ablaze With Searchlights.
FIERCE A-A GUNFIRE,
I rilt.il I'ri-sn Association.—Copyright. (Rcc.lvfMl 5.50 p.m.) LONDON, January IS. A major air, and possibly also naval battle, began at Hitler's chief North Sea air base on the Island of Syll at tf p.m. Squadrons of big (Jeriiuiu 'plane* went up from List, tit the northern tip of the island, and tighter* from Schleswig flew south mill west, while anti-aircraft guns hla/cd furiously. Heavy gunfire, resembling that of tin Mil guim, broke out in the Heligoland urea. Five "pinlies, believed to l>e British, swooped from the north-west at 8 p.m. iin<l dropped five bombs on Rantum mid Keiturn. where the Hilidpllburg dam railwiiv ends.
The 'pinlies' mnchine-guiis maintained inteii-ive lire.
The islnnrl towns were complete! v blacked out. hut the sky whs ablaze with searchlights, The i.attle is still
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 16, 19 January 1940, Page 8
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