LULL IN THE AIR

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 16, 18 July 1940, Page 11

LULL IN THE AIR

ADVERSE WEATHER

WIDE RECONNAISSANCES

RAIDS ON BRITAIN

(U.P.A. and Official Wireless.)

(Received July 18, noon.)

LONDON, July 17.

An Air Ministry communique issued this evening states: "Throughout yesterday aircraft of the Coastal Command carried out their usual reconnaissances over a wide area from Scandinavia to the Bay of Biscay. Owing to adverse weather conditions, bomber forces did not operate last night."

A German raider dropped 15 bombs on the south-east of Scotland. A bomb fell in front of a police station, in which a sergeant's wife was asleep. She was thrown from her bed. The house was damaged.

Other bombs fell in fields,

Raiders dropped six bombs in open country in the south-east of England this afternoon. There were no casualties.

Raiders were also reported over the south-west of England.

A German communique states: "Bad weather limited our air activity. Bomber units attacked the harbour of Thurso and set fire to one merchantman. They also bombed a troop camp at the most southerly point of Scapa Flow. There were no enemy plane incursions into Germany last. night. British planes bombed Copenhagen indiscriminately last night, • The damage is unknown."