“SNEAK” RAIDING IN DAYLIGHT

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 157, 29 March 1941, Page 12

“SNEAK” RAIDING IN DAYLIGHT

English South Coast Towns LONE NAZI PLANES OVER ON THURSDAY (Received March 28, 5.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 28. More daylight “sneak” raids were a feature of yesterday’s German air activity over Britain. A raider swooped from low clouds over a south coast town, blazed away with its machineguns. and dropped explosive bombs, one of which fell close to a feeding centre at which 200 children were having their midday meal. The children scrambled under the tables and there were no casualties. Another bomb wrecked a building in which a number of men were lunching. Five were killed and a number sent to hospital. Rescue workers with acetylene burn, ers’eut through twisted ironwork to reach men and youths trapped in the wreckage of a building after a lone raider bombed another south coast town. Several were found dead and a number injured. A raider vl'hlch attacked a south-east coast town dived to within 300 feet of the ground before unloosing its bombs. Houses, a school, a church, and a convalescent home were damaged. There were no casualties. An Air Ministry communique states that a few bombs were dropped at dusk on parts of the east coast of Eng land. There were no casualties. There was nothing to' report on Wednesday night. The German news agency stales that during the day important military objectives on the south and south-east coasts of Britain were successfully bombed. Fires were observed in harbour .works in Folkestone and Harwich. There was'a brief alert in the London area early this morning, this being the first daylight raid on the capital for eight days. A small formation of enemy bombers reached the outskirts of the city but was. quickly driven off.