FURTHER NAZI AIR RAID LOSSES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 165, 13 July 1940, Page 10

FURTHER NAZI AIR RAID LOSSES.

RENEWED ATTACKS.

Deadly Accuracy Of British

Ground Batteries.

COAST DEFENCES STRONG.

United Frtss Association. —Copyright. (Received noon.) LONDON, July 12. A total of 11 German raiders were shot down by early this evening. Two British fighters are missing. Yesterday's, total of enemy raiders destroyed was 23. !. I'our of those shot down to-day were in a formation of 12 attacking shipping. Anti-aircraft batteries shot down a /aider over a south-west town this af.tern'oon, and fighters shot down two moro on the south-west coast. A dog light over a south-cast English town accounted for another Nazi bomber. Shop windows were smashed for a distance of a mile. A man, aged 80, wa« among those killed, also a police* man, the father of five children, including two sets of twins, who was killed while cycling to duty. A British lighter in another dog fight over the north-east of Scotland brought down a Nazi 'plane' which crashed on n building in course of construction. Raiders over Scotland dropped many high explosive and incendiary bombs. One bomb killed a workman and seriously wounded others. Another bomb injured people in the street. Windows over a wido area were shattered, cutting many civilians. The Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security announce that an enemy bomber /lying nt a great height dropped a number of bombs, which fell in various parts of a town on the north-east coast of Scotland this afternoon, says a British Official Wireless message. Damage was caused and a number of persons were killed and injured,' The bomber was iiitcrcept.ed-hy-tighters and shot down on the"outskirts of the, town.. The crews of three different antiaircraft gun* on the south coast shared the credit for shooting down three enemy aircraft in yesterday's raids. A Heinkel 111 was hit when flying low in a shallow dive. Six or seven shells were enough to bring it down. As it, hit the ground the Heinkel exploded with a great flash. The second bomber was flying relatively high when anti-aircraft shells began to burst round it. After being hit it dived vertically into the sea. The third enemy aircraft brought down by guns was a Messerschmitt 110 fighter. The gunner said: "As the enemy aircraft came in to attack they split up. So we all had our chance."

R.A.F. OFFICERS.

AUSTRALIANS MISSING.

(liocelved 2 p.m.) LONDON", July 12. Tlii' fallowing; Australian' members" of ;li" K.A.F., Pilot-Officer A. G. Pascoe, ■• l* Mosmfln, Sergeant .T. C. Winston, of M li..MinTp, nn I ' I'iln! Oniier C. R. S. rmi ',}•«, ill' I! ui'ii in v mi-sing.