IN BRITAIN

Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1940, Page 5

IN BRITAIN

WEDNESDAY NIGHT ATTACKS

(United Press Association—By Electric

Telegraph—Copyright)

LONDON, December 5

The'Air Ministry, in a report says : In the early hours of Wednesday night, ; aircraft . flew over London and over the Midlands. They dropped high explosive . bombs and incendiairy bombs.! The casualties were few and the damage was slight. ■ The activity had ceased'by midnight. , LONDON, December 5.

A priest and- a widow overnight were standing beside the body of the widow’s brother, who was killed in the previous air-raid. They were talking of the funeral arrangements. A bomb hit the back of the house and both were injured. >,.<• ■< LONDON, December 5. The London morning and evening papers are not publishing on Christmas Day unless development of national importance warrant it.

DOCTORS NEEDED AT SHELTERS

LONDON, December 4

The “Daily Telegraph” reveals that over twenty doctors are nightly calling at ~ pilose London shelters in which, there are five hundred people sleeping. Some, of the largest shelters, including those in the. tubes, have • a .doctor, in attendance all ljight. The Ministry of Health has recommended the local authorities to appoint such doctors at a salary of £SOO a year.

PLANES DOWNED.

FOURTEEN TO ONE.

(Received this day at .12 noon). RUGBY. December 5. British fighter destroyed twelve enemy aircraft, and anti-aircraft one—for the loss of one fighter, of which the pilot is save —during raids on Britain to-day. An official communique announcing the success states: “This morning a number of enemy fighters and fighter bombers which flew over East Kent were intercepted 'by our fighters and scattered; During the afternoon other enemy aircraft crossed the coast of Kent and came inland. They were also attacked, and put to flight. Bombs dropped by these raiders caused some damage to houses and other buildings and injured a siimber of people. It is officially stated that the total enemy aircraft destroyed to-dav over England is now fourteen. A.R.P. squads, joined bv pioneers, are still striving to locate the remainder of the women and children trapped under the bombed ruins of the Convent cabled on December 4,. There is little hope that any of those buried are alive.

In addition to those shot down in combats on the south-east coast, an enemy bomber was shot down off the south-west coast. Two of our aircraft were lost, the pilot of one being safe.