Great Aerial Activity.

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVIII, Issue 49, 12 January 1940, Page 3

Great Aerial Activity.

[aids on the East & South Coast. No Damage Done LONDON, January 11. Great aerial activity has marked the operations during the past two days. Jn addition to a battle in the air in which over fifty ’planes a ,. e I( .ported to have' taken part, the enemy has made several raids on the East and South coast, but the raiders were driven off b iSritish bombers and anti-aircraft guns, no damage being done. Pilots of British ’planes which took part in the raid on the Inland of Sylt were not able to determine the full extent of the i done by bombs, but it is believed that the causeway con- . the island with the mainland was extensively damaged, in ■ Western Front enemy ’planes attempted a reconnais- ,, but met strong opposition and two enemy ’planes were r ~ at down in the French trenches.

GEUAT AIR BATTLE. OVER THE ISLAND OF SYLT. FIFi * ’I’LAXES ENGAGED. LONDON, January 11. What apparently the biggest . e „t.. .jcin.'iit since the outbreak of , W( place yesterday at Sylt, r jl w ~, i,,'the German Friesian nll ,| r just off the southern tdei ' ' k - K that 50 British and nni]i , -piunrs participated in the Security patrols in the •li"ol;u. it dropped bombs as r ] v n B 1 it.ii. - and a major battle Mn OVl .| svl I(i a.m., when anti„niCt n in on lull'd for two ’|’|i | - resumed at 0 a.m., ten Goini.’i: d tors went up. The uously till 12.30 „ x< '■ " tbuists were intermingI Villi bin xplosions at 2.30 p.in. d cun!' in n nil 1 p.m. fl, t . ~l,:. o, included the Hinnbiini' < '■ <>» "hich is a -ategK- . . railway for the mspoi t ■ (plies to the air base, ircc bond ided on or near the mseway. ■pj,,. t; -i - I ndio announced that mu,in -encountered nine Brih Imnii-i r- : 1 p.m. and shot down ttr. \. G ..... casualties are adittrd. Ii * i' l i ‘ oh reports that two illet-riddled G.iman 'planes made rcod l;.i in Denmark. One lot stated tliat lie had been dogrhtin? a!' the afternoon. An Air Ministry announcement vs: “In the course of a reconnaisncc to-' s’, it fonnation of the oval Air d"i’ce on the outward jour>v encountered a number of longnge enciii liters tar out over the orth Sen. A running fight ensued, sting Hal;' an hour. One Messerhmitt ltd -as seen to crash into le sea, and ii is already known that [other was forced to land in Denark. One nt our aircraft was lost, it the remainder, having beaten off le enemy, continued to the easterly mit of their reconnaissance and relrned safely.’’ FLATUS INTERNED. One German 'plane landed in Belinni, and i men were interned. Sylt i- iniaest German island a the a. It consists of a arrow bub ' miles in length and coevally less Hum a mile wide, with wider peninsula stretching east rom the nr ’-lie. Westerland, in the liddle, the el iel village, has railway onneetimis nth the harbors at the lortli and s-mlli ends. Sylt has been ised since d ■ beginning of the war is a Nazi seaplane base. Danish reports mention that a treat mind; ■ f 'planes participated n the battle and there was heavy firng throughout the day. Copenhagen reports that an unidentified 'plane dropped three bombs m Romo T i "1. the Danish island adjoining t! ■ Nazi air base of Sylt.