GERMANS LOSE NINE PLANES

Southland Times, Issue 24211, 22 August 1940, Page 7

GERMANS LOSE NINE PLANES

Smaller Formations Over Britain MANY CHILDREN RETURN TO LONDON (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received August 21,11.40 p.m.) LONDON, August 21. The last raider was shot down near the north-east coast last night and the four members of the crew were taken prisoner. This brought the day’s total to nine planes. The British losses were nil. At 9 p.m. the Royal Air Force had destroyed seven air raiders against Britain. A Polish squadron got one. It is now established that anti-air-craft gunners shot down eight more raiders on Sunday, making a total of 152. North-eastern anti-aircraft guns shot down a German flying-boat shortly before midnight on Monday. An Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security communique states that during the morning enemy activities over this country were comparatively slight. Bombs were dropped on two towns, one in Essex and the other in South Wales. In bo tli places houses were hit and some persons injured. A small number of these casualties was fatal. Bombs were also dropped in a South Wales port, the damage being small. In the afternoon raiders approached the south-east coast in stronger force. An East Anglian town was attacked,

but no casualties are so far reported. The damage was confined to broken windows.

The main objective of the afternoon attack appears to have been an aerodrome on the south coast, but the enemy showed no desire to press home the attack and very few of his aircraft succeeded in penetrating the defences. No damage was done. The Daily Mail says that though it is too early to forecast the result of the London raids many evacuated children have been streaming back to London. Only 166,000 of the 312,000 evacuated still remain away. The Leicestershire district has lost 650 of its 1000 evacuees, in spite of the absence of raids on the district.