LULL IN AIR WAR

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 260, 30 July 1941, Page 7

LULL IN AIR WAR

Little Activity Over Britain R.A.F. HAS NIGHT OFF LONDON, July 29. Few enemy aircraft crossed the coast of Britain last night. Bombs were dropped on three points in East Anglia. There was only slight damage and a few casualties. No Royal Air Force activity over Germany last night has been reported. When aircraft of the Bomber Command visited the Dunkirk docks .on Sunday, Coastal and Fighter Command machines carried out other operations. An official communique reporting their activities states that ships were extensively attacked in enemy waters by aircraft of the Bomber Command, and aircraft of the Fighter Command attacked enemy aerodromes in northern France during the night. One aircraft of the Bomber Command is missing from these operations. Three enemy, bombers were destroyed over Britain last night. Residents in some London areas felt the familiar earth-tremor of the exploding bombs during Sunday night’s raids on Britain, but the explosions were not preceded by the familiar whine or screaming sound 1 . Others report a number of oil bombs which flung enormous flashes of fire into the air. A stick of bombs fell on residential property in several roads in one dis-

trict, killing a number of people and injuring several. It is feared that at least six perished in a house which was directly hit. A family of four were killed in a shelter. Another bomb fell near a convent school, which fortunately had been evacuated. Twelve of 14 persons were killed in the London area when their shelter received! a direct hit. Six of a family which had been buried six months ago were again buried. All were found dead —three women and three children. Two brothers and their sister and two brothers-in-law were killed when another shelter was wrecked. William Allen, aged 16, went to his father’s'room in a big block of workers’ flats when the raid began and asked : “Do you think we had better get up? Before he received an answer a bomb fell outside the flats. The blast killed William, but hie father was unhurt. A German refers to the bombing of London as a reprisal for repeated attacks against residential quarters in German towns. The German news agency saye that strong forces of the Luftwaffe on Sunday night successfully attacked London harbour works and docks. The crews reported many fires west of the Thames loop.