LITTLE ACTIVITY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21969, 22 May 1941, Page 5

LITTLE ACTIVITY

Bombs Dropped in Midlands

LONDON, May 20. There has been little air activity over Britain during the last 24 hours. The Air Ministry states that there was little enemy activity over Britain last night. Bombs were dropped at a point to the East Midlands, where there were some casualties, and at a few points elsewhere. No extensive damage was done anywhere. London did not have an alert.

The Admiralty reported that a Heinkel 111 was shot down over the east coast last night. It had previously been under fire and was damaged by the minesweeper Princess Elizabeth, which was previously a passenger vessel sailing to the Isle of Wight. Among the famous buildings destroyed In the recent bombing raid on London wore the Royal College of Surgeons, the Royal Naval College at Greenwich, and the Church of St. Colombus, which was the principal shrine of the Church of Scotland to London.