NOT CONFIRMED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 17, 20 January 1940, Page 9

NOT CONFIRMED.

AIR BATTLE RUMOURS. Nazis Practising Bombing And Shelling? OPINION IN LONDON. British Official Wireless. (Received 10.30 a.111.) RUGBY, January 19. There is 110 confirmation in London of circumstantial reports from Copenhagen of a new air attack 011 the German seaplane base at the island of Sylt, to the north of Heligoland Bight. The Air Ministry has 110 information about any air activity that would account for these reports, and it is unofficially stated that no British 'planes were over that district yesterday. This is the second time 111 eight days that eye-witness reports of this kind, entirely lacking, in conlirination in London, have been received from Denmark. The opinion is expressed in London, in reference to the guniirc heard near Svlt yesterday, that the Germans were carrying out shelling and bombing practise," says ft cable message. A Berlin communique states that eneinv aircraft flew over the north-west of Germany last evening, flying over Dutch territory, both entering and leaving Germany. It is reported from The Hague that the 'Government is inquiring in London with reference to foreign 'planes flying over Holland yesterday, relerred to in the Berlin communique. ENEMY DRIVEN OFF. R.A.F. Fighters In Action East Of Aberdeen. ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST RAID. British Otlicial Wireless. (lteccivctl 1 p.m.) RUGBY, January 10. The Air Ministry announces that "an enemy aircraft was attacked by R.A.I', fighters over the sea east of this afternoon and driven off. An Air Ministry statement gives point to a leading article in the "Yorkshire Post," which recalls that it is a quartci of a century to-day since England was first attacked by airships, which came over the eastern counties 011 a rainy, misty night and dropped bombs, killing four persons. After reviewing the growth of the air menace after lill-l in the last war, and in the intervening years of peace, the "Yorkshire Post - ' editorial ends with a claim which this afternoon's incident does nothing to invalidate. "The air menace can be mastered." it says. "That is shown by the speed with which recent raiders have returned to Germany after 1 approaching our coast 6."