BY BOTH DAY AND NIGHT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 24 October 1940, Page 5

BY BOTH DAY AND NIGHT

FEW BOMBS ON LONDON MIST OVER STRAITS OF DOVER [British Official Wireless and Press Assn.] (Received 24th October, 11.10 a.m). LONDON, 23rd October. A heavy mist blotting out the Straits j of Dover is believed to have been j partly responsible for the marked slackening of night raids on London. An Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security communique states: I “Enemy air activity to-day was con- j fined to a few isolated attacks by single aircraft. Bombs were dropped on a town on the south coast and two ! places in the London area. Only slight 1 damage was caused and there were no | casualties, except in one place in the 1 London area where the number was very small. High-explosive bombs demolished a number of houses in one district last night and several persons were buried under debris. A time-bomb exploded in the Lon-! don area after it had been dug up. Members of the demolition squads were at lunch and there were no casualties. The damage was not serious. A lifeboat rescued the pilot of a Messerschmitt which crashed into the sea near Hastings. Another lifeboat vainly searched for survivors of a German plane which crashed in flames some distance from the shore. Passengers flung themselves to the floor when a bomb-carrying Messerschmitt swooped down and machinegunned a bus climbing a steep hill on the Kentish coast this evening. No damage was caused and there were no casualties. Planes were reported over Liverpool and a north-western town, also the Midlands, where high-explosive bombs were dropped.