NOT PRESSED

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 53, 30 August 1940, Page 8

NOT PRESSED

ENEMY RAIDS

BROKEN UP OVER

BRITAIN

NINE PLANES DOWN

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received August 30, 2.10 p.m.) LONDON, August 29. The Air Ministry announced that the R.A.F. this afternoon dispersed numerous raiders approaching the coast of Kent. A small number penetrated inland, but the attack was not pressed home. Raiders were active this evening in the same area. Fighters broke up the formations and pursued the raiders out to sea. Fighters so far have destroyed eight raiders and the anti-aircraft guns one. Three British fighters have been lost. Gunfire could be heard in the London area tonight and searchlights were active. Raiders are believed to have been over the suburbs. Air raiders appeared over a town in the south-west and also over the Midlands and the north-east and northwest of England. (British Official Wireless.) (Received August 30, 2.30 p.m.) RUGBY, August 29. A communique issued by the Ministry of Home Security states: "On Thursday afternoon enemy aircraft attacked the Scilly Isles. Bombs were dropped and civilians were fired upon with machine-guns. Fires were caused and a smallnumber of persons injured. "Enemy aircraft also machine-gunned a south-west town during the morning, but there were no casualties and no damage. A small number of bombs were dropped in the south of England early in the day. A house was slightly damaged, but no one was injured. "Apart from these occurrences, no bombs are reported to • have been dropped in the British Isles during the hours of daylight on Thursday." German daylight raids over Britain, on Thursday, in which seven enemy fighters and two bombers are known to have been destroyed up to 9 p.m., took the form of two main raids along the Kent and Sussex coasts. One wa» between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m., and the second was after 5 ,p.m. Beyond the nine enemy aircraft known to have been shot down, several more, are reported by fighter pilots as "probably destroyed" and others were seriously damaged.