HIT-AND-RUN RAIDS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 30, 5 February 1941, Page 8

HIT-AND-RUN RAIDS

FOUR GERMAN PLANES DOWN

VICTIMS OF RAF. FIGHTERS

NO BRITISH LOSS

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received February 5, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, February 4. The destruction of four German aeroplanes today, without British loss, is reported in an Air Ministry and Home Security communique. It says: "This morning a single enemy bomber dropped bombs on a town on the east coast. Some damage was done to houses and utility services, and a fire was started, but was soon put out. There was a small number of casualties.

, "A bomber was shot down into the sea off the Suffolk coast by our fighters.

"There has been little other enemy activity over this country today. A few bombs have been dropped in Kent, but little damage and no serious casualties have been reported. This afternoon our fighters, without loss to themselves, shot down two enemy fighterbombers and an enemy fighter."

(British Official Wireless.) (Received February 5, 12:30 p.m.) RUGBY, February 4. j Four German aircraft were destroyed during another day of hit-and-run raids directed at convoys, aerodromes, and towns in the south-east and east of Britain, states the Air Ministry news service.

A Dornier 17 which bombed an East Anglian town this morning was chased out to sea and shot down by two Hurricanes, whose pilots belong to the