DRIVEN OFF
ENEMY PLANE EAST OF ABERDEEN
AIRSHIP RAID RECALLED
FIRST OF GREAT WAR
(British Official Wireless.) (Received January 20, 10.50 a.m.)
RUGBY, January 19.
The Air Ministry announced: "An enemy aircraft was attacked by R.A.F. fighters over the sea east of Aberdeen this afternoon and driven off."
The Air Ministry statement gives point to a leading article in the "Yorkshire Post," which recalls that it is a quarter of a century today since England was first attacked by airships, which came over the eastern counties on a rainy, misty night and dropped bombs, killing four persons. After reviewing the growth of the air menace after 1915 in the last war and in the intervening years of peace, the "Yorkshire Post" editorial ends with the claim, which this afternoon's incident does nothing to invalidate: "The air menace can be mastered. That is shown by the speed with which recent raiders returned to Germany after approaching our coasts."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 17, 20 January 1940, Page 11
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