FORCED TO RETREAT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 238, 5 September 1940, Page 7

FORCED TO RETREAT

NAZIS’ MEAGRE SUCCESS.

TOWNS BOMBED.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Britisk Official Wireless.) Received September 5, 10.50 a.m.

RUGBY, Sept. 4. The large forces of German aficraft which, again attempted to break through the British defences, to-day, suffered heavy losses.

An Air Ministry communique describing the day’s raids states that shortly after midday a large formation of about 2C-0 enemy aircraft crossed t'he coast of Kent. They were met by our fighters and anti-aircraft gunfire, and most of them were driven back over the coast. Two small formations, however, were able to penetrate the defences, and one of these flew inland and dropped bombs on industrial premises.

Some damage was done and a number of casualties were caused, some of them fatal.

Other formations passed over Kent to the Thames Estuary and dropped bombs on a Medway town. Some houses were damaged, but there were few casualties. No fatal injuries are reported. * Elsewhere in the south-east bombs were dropped in a few scattered areas, and damage was caused to a number of shops and dwelling houses. The sirens sounded in London for the third time to-day at 9.9 p.m.