AIR BATTLE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 39, 15 February 1941, Page 12

AIR BATTLE

DOVER STRAITS AREA

RAIDERS CUT OFF

LONDON CASUALTIES

(Official Wireless and TT.P.A.)

(Received February 15, 2.30 p.m.),

LONDON, February 14.

Enemy aircraft, flying singly, dropped bombs today at a point in nofth-east Scotland, and also in Kent. These caused no damage or casualties.

During patrol activity over the Straits of Dover this morning an enemy fighter was shot down. One R.A.F. fighter is missing. Later reports show that the casualties in London last night were larger than was at first supposed, and included a number of persons killed.

Rescue squads were still searching this morning among the debris for persons trapped in last night's raid in which bombs fell in a crowded workers' area before the alert was sounded.

Three sisters were trapped in a bedroom and killed. A doctor crawled under the wreckage of a house and gave an injection to an injured man. An elderly man in another house, although badly injured, told rescuers to leave him and look for his wife, ,who was found dead a few yards away. Some roads are littered with wreckage and goods from houses and shops. The fire brigade quickly dealt with fires among wreckage.

While the R.A.F. was sweeping the invasion ports on the French coast today two air battles were fought over the .Straits of Dover. A small number of planes whirled to battle among the clouds soon after noon when a squadron of Spitfires intercepted German fighters. One Messerschmitt was shot down. • , Later British . fighters drove off a force of raiders after a thrilling battle over a town on the south-east coast and a second Messerschmitt was shot down.