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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 November 1939, Page 7

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ROYAL AIR FORCE SUCCESSES

ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN

[by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.]

LONDON, November 3.

Two British Tighter ■ aeroplanes brought down a German bomber near Roubaix. The pilot was killed, another- officer was' wounded, and two ethers were taken prisoners. Each fighter fired one burst and forced the German bomber to crash into a-hedge and topple over d. bank into a brook. : Allied anti-aircraft guns and. a British pursuit areoplane shot down three German aeroplanes which were attempting to; reconnoitre the British lines. ■' Another aeroplane flew back to German territory trailing a column of smoke. < EIGHTH CASUALTY LIST LONDON, November 3. ' The Air Force casualty list No. 8 is as follows: —Killed in action two, killed oh active service .16, missing four, missing believed killed one, died on detiye service two. . Previously re-, ported wounded and now died one, previously missing and believed killed; and now reported killed in action four. . N.Z. PILOT KILLED i . ' LONDON,'November 3. ' The Royal Air Force casualty list includes Acting-Pilot Officer A. G. Whitehead, of Hastings, New-Zealand, who was killed on active service.

SPIES LAND BY PARACHUTE

(Recd. Noy. 4, 11.30 a.m.),. - PARIS, November 3.

Air. activity- in October, when ten German planes ;were brought down, was less, than- in .September, when. 28 were accounted for.

The Nazis are apparently .landing -spies by parachute behind the lines, two such having been identified. •

“A QUIET NIGHT” . , RUGBY, Nov. 3. The morning French official communique states: “There was a quiet night, -but'there was some artillery and infantry fire. “During the day of November 2, a German twin-engined reconnaissance airplane was brought down in our territory, by a British fighter.” • MINOR ENEMY MOVEMENTS ’ ■ ...... ' t ~ • • PARIS, November 3.- ■ Minor German troop movements are occurring north of Saareguimines/east of which their artillery is active. “READY FOR EVERYTHING.”. LONDON, November 3. . Dr. E; L.- Bui'gin, Minister of Supply, ■ at’-a Press v ‘ conference, said that the anti-aircraft defences of Britain were ready for everything, even to the parachutist desperado.