NAZIS OVER BRITAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 4, 4 July 1940, Page 11

NAZIS OVER BRITAIN

DAYLIGHT VISITS

ENEMY PLANES SHOT

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CD.P.A. and Official Wireless.! (Received July 4, 11 a.m.) LONDON, July 3.

An Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security communique states: "Enemy aircraft this afternoon dropped bombs on the north-east coast of England and in Scotland, injuring about 16 people. Bombs were also dropped in eastern counties and on the south-east coast of England. Casualties are reported in a Suffolk town, where two persons were killed and about 16 injured. Our fighter patrols, which were sent up to intercept, shot down two enemy j bombers, making a total of three dej stroyed today. I "Later reports of last evening's iraid on the north-east coast indicate that 13 people were killed and about 120 injured, most of them not seriously. These casualties occurred in the" residential areas of three Tyneside towns." An Air Ministry communique issued later tonight states that two enemy bombers were intercepted and shot down -by our fighters this evening, bringing the total enemy aircraft destroyed during attacks on Britain today to five. It is stated officially that a German bomber was shot down off the east coast this morning. This makes the twenty-fourth raider. that has been destroyed since June 18. Nearly a hundred have been destroyed over and 1 around the British coasts since the outbreak of the war, and manj* more have ben so seriously damaged that it is unlikely that they reached their bases.

A bomb which fell in a town on the south-east coast hit a cottage and killed a baby and its grandmother. The baby was asleep, and was blown from the cottage 30 yards across the street. Another bomb set fire to a store. Shoppers and the staff are believed to have escaped. Three bombs which fell in north-eastern England injured several workmen.

It was officially announced that the1 bombs dropped by planes which crossed the south coast this morning were few in number. The raid does not appear to have been directed at any particular objective. As far as is known two persons were injured. Bombs fell on one town. An enemy plane flew low over the town and then disappeared out to sea. People saw the bombs released. One exploded in a garden, smashing the front of the house. Two others crashed in an adjoining roadway. An incendiary bomb set fire to a building. Other bombs fell at sea and in open country. An enemy plane machine-gunned soldiers near a beach.

The death-roll from Monday's raid on the north-east region of Scotland reached 15 with the deaths of three persons last night.

A German communique states: "Our planes raided a British armament centre along the east coast, particularly Newcastle. A raid. last night on English south coast ports resulted in several fires and explosions. We shot down two British planes over Holland."