AERIAL WARFARE

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 May 1941, Page 8

AERIAL WARFARE

MONDAY NIGHT QUIET. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, May 20. The Air Ministry reports: There was little enemy air activity over Britain on Monday night.. Bombs were dropped at a point in the East Midlands, where there were some casualties. At a lew points elsewhere bombs were also dropped. No extensive damage is anywhere reported. LULL CONTINUED RUGBY, May 20. An Air Ministry and Home Security communique states: Although there has been a little enemy activity over coastal regions, to-day, nowhere have the enemy flown far inland. Up to 8 p.m. no reports had been received of any bombs having been dropped, HEINKEL SHOT DOWN RUGBY, May 20. An Admiralty communique states: “Last night, a Heinkel 111 was engaged and shot down off the east coast by His Majesty’s trawlers! Thomas Leeds and Stella Lenios. The enemy aircraft had previously been under fire, and was damaged by the minesweeper Princess Elizabeth. No casualties or damage was sustained by our ships.”— BUILDINGS DESTROYED. \ LONDON, May 20. Among buildings destroyed by raids are the Royal College of Engineers, St. Columba’s Church, London’s headquarters of .the Church of Scotland, Lincoln’s Inn Fields Council room and Museum, and No. 10. j Neville’s Court, a building which | survived the great fire of London ini 1666. At the Royal College of Surgeons. a famous Hunterian collection was buried. GERMAN ADMISSION. LONDON, May 20. General Milch, in an appeal to German A.R.P. forces, said: “We cannot just look on when great damage is done to our war factories by fire. Otherwise we would suffer losses that we would be unable to make good. I beg you to continue your A.R.P. work as hitherto, so as to prevent damage, and to set an example for others.”