ENEMY ROUTED.
AFRICAN AIR BATTLE.
British Fighters Down Seven
Italian 'Planes,
FIRST RAID ON GIBRALTAR.
United Tress Association.—Copyright,
(Received 11 n.m.) LONDON', .1 ulv
An K.A.F. communique, issued at Cairo yesterday, stated that a flight of our fighters attacked enemy 'planes, resulting in one enemy crashing in flames and another making a forced landing.
Six British fighters encountered nine enemy fighters in the afternoon and shot down seven. One of our fighters is missing, but is believed to have made a forced landing on our side of the frontier. Blenheim bombers attacked a large military camp at Birel Gobbi, causing much damage. A Naircfbi communique states that bombers of the South African Air Force destroyed a petrol dump and scored a direct hit on the barracks and aerodrome at Lughferrandi, in Italian Somaliland.
Gibraltar had its first air attack. Enemy 'planes attacked three times and dropped several bombs, but there was no damage and no casualties.
Italian 'planes, flying low, used machine-guns in a morning raid on Malta, but there were no casualties and no damage.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 159, 6 July 1940, Page 9
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