AERIAL ACTIVITY

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 December 1939, Page 7

AERIAL ACTIVITY

ENEMY ’PLANES OVER BRITAIN. ■» I [BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.J ’ (Recd. December 7, 11.15 a.m.) J LONDON, December 6. 1 Unidentified aircraft were reported <- at a high altitude over the Thames I Estuary, early this morning. Search- 1 lights found two planes, which then t swooped down low over the sea, and \ disappeared in a north-easterly direc- 1 tl On - . XT. 1 1 An air-raid warning over the Ork- i neys, this morning, lasted 30 minutes. An enemy ’plane was heard overhead, t An Air Ministry bulletin states: ( “There was some enemy aircraft ac- j tivity last night off the East Coast. ] Fighter aircraft weht. up, but the t weather conditions were bad, and contact was not made. j The wreckage of a German aircraft, . and the body of a German airman were recovered on the East Anglian Coast This machine crashed during the night, and it is presumed that, it was engaged in mine-laying opera- ■ tions.” CRASH ON NORFOLK COAST (Recd. December 7, 10.20 a.m.) v LONDON, December 6. Narrowly missing a gasometer, a German twin-engined monoplane crashed in the shallows of the Norfolk C °q'hfl body of the German boy pilot was washed ashore. A lifeboat searched for some time, but was unable to fn The an machine IVO apparently crashed nut of control. British fighters were not seen in the vicinity and anti-air-craft fire was not heard. GERMAN MACHINE'S SOS. AMSTERDAM, December 6. , A lifeboat went to the assistance j a German ’plane which came down' outside™ rritorlal waters ahd sent out an SOS. Later, it was towed to E *Anti-aircraft guns fired on two unidentified ’Places, flying westward.