AGAIN REPULSED

Opotiki News, Volume III, Issue 317, 30 September 1940, Page 4

AGAIN REPULSED

MAZI MARAUDERS WAVES OF BOMBERS SIX DAYLIGHT RAIDS FIERCE BRITISH DEFENCE FORMATIONS DISPERSED (News by Cable.) LONDON, Sept. 27. There were six daylight raids by German planes to-day. When a big wave of bombers tried to penetrate the defences of the capital this morning they were pounced upon by fighters. The ensuing, battle was fought at a great altitude. The wrecks of three bombers now lie in Surrey villages. Two more riddled bombers crashed in Westminster. Three raiders crashed pear Canterbury during an air battle over Kent. Fresh waves of Germans' kept appearing over the Channel, but the resistance of the Royal Air Force became fiercer and fiercer as the day progressed, breaking up the German formations over the coast. Some of the raiders then turned their attention to the seaside towns. During the first daylight raid on London a bomb penetrated a section of an underground shelter of a London factory, causing many casualties, some being fatal. Other buildings were battered in this district. In the afternoon the defences kept the enemy planes at such a respectful height as to make them almost invisible.