Attacks on Orkneys Fail; Several Nazi Warcraft Shot Down London, Oct. 18.
In the most widespread raids yesterday over Great Britain since the start of the war, the Germans are claimed to have lost at least half Orkneys was concentrated' on Scapa
slight damage to the training Flow, where the raiders a Iron Duke but lost one of their number, The second attack on the Orkneys lasted two hours, from 12.30 to 230, and was carried out by two formations of six and four aircraft respectively. At Kirkwall the wail of sirens wes heard six times, German planes are reported to have visited the islands of Flotta and Hoy, Heavy fire from AA. guns and warships kept the raiders high in the sky, barely discernible from the ground. During one raid, two bombs fell on civilian property but no civilian casualty was One machine is said to have been brought down on Hoy island. The pilot, who made a safe landing by parachute, was taken prisoner.
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