FEW NAZI RAIDERS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20637, 18 August 1941, Page 5

FEW NAZI RAIDERS

ATTACKS ON BRITAIN LULL IN OFFENSIVE (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 11.30 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 17. A joint communique issued by the Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security states: “A few enemy aircraft operated over the coast of eastern and south-east England last night. Some flew further inland. Bombs were dropped at several points. These caused some damage but the number of casualties reported was very small, although it included a small number of people who lost their lives at a town in the south-east of England.” An official communique states:— “During Friday night a small number of enemy aircraft reached our coasts at widely separated points and, in one or two instances, flew a few miles inland. Bombs were dropped in northeast- and in east Anglia, the south-west and east of Scotland, causing some damage and a small number of casualties at one place.” One enemy bomber was shot down into the sea off the south-west coast yesterday. It. is officially stated in London that the total number of German bombers which crossed the English coast during the whole of the last four weeks was well under 300, this being many less than the number of Royal Air Force bombers operating on Thursday night. A Berlin communique says that the Luftwaffe bombed war objectives in Cambridge and caused fires in Great Yarmouth, Falmouth and Hull.