NIGHT RAIDERS REPULSED

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23003, 24 April 1940, Page 9

NIGHT RAIDERS REPULSED

Nazi Aircraft Near Britain SOWING OP MINES SUSPECTED .(Received April 23, 8.30 p.ffi.) LONDON, April 23. Aati-aimaft units find fighter's went,lnto action ever the east and south-east coasts of England as the Nazis attempted night raids. Searchlights Mazed and great flashes were seen. jugt above the water, The raiders were driven off before they reached' the coast, . The Air Ministry announced that the enemy raiders were apparently engaged in attempting to lay mines ■ in the Thames and Humber estuaries. , Two aeroplanes flew over the Shetlaads yesterday afternoon. Antiaircraft guns went into action and fighters went Up and drove off the raiders. No bombs were dropped, • German aeroplanes which- were attempting to reach Paris were driven off, . The wreckage of two more Ger- , man aeroplanes shot down by Royal Air Force machines h&S been found in France. One was a new type of, bomber-reconnaissance aeroplane. .German aeroplanes continue to violate neutral territory. One flew oyer south-east Belgium on Sunday and four were put out el action in various parts Of Sweden. A Stockholm newspaper estimates the Ger- , hian , machines to have made 28 : flights over Sweden. The Swedish Government has sent a protest to Berlin eeuehea in stronger terms than usual. . • German aircraft are still finding hme to machine-gun fishing vessels. . -the latest victim is the Dutch trawler Erm, which arrived in port after being attacked by a German aeroplane in the North Sea. Two Swedish fishing boats were also machine-gunned by a German aeroplane while fishing Inside British territorial, waters.