RAIDERS REPORTED
OFF SCOTTISH COAST
THE AIR DEFENCES
"READY FOR EVERYTHING"
(Received November 4, 1 p.m.)
LONDON. November 3
Intense aerial activity occurred in the Firth of Forth area following a report that enemy raiders had appreached the Scottish coast. An engagement between British fighters and German raiders is believed to have occurred a few miles out to sea from the Firth. Immediately a preliminary warning was given and fighters took off and flew out to sea. No sirens were sounded and no sounds of gunfire were heard.
At a Press conference, the Minister of Supply, Mr. E. L. Burgin, referring to the anti-aircraft defences, said that Britain was ready for everything, even to the parachutist desperado.
Two British fighters brought down a German bomber near Roubaix. The pilot was killed and another officer was wounded. Two others were taken prisoner.
Each fighter fired one burst and forced the German bomber down. It crashed into a hedge and toppled over a bank into a brook.
Allied anti-aircraft guns and a British pursuit plane shot down two or three German planes attempting to reconnoitre the British lines. One plane flew back to German territory, trailing a column of smoke/
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 109, 4 November 1939, Page 13
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198RAIDERS REPORTED Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 109, 4 November 1939, Page 13
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