All along the coast of Scotland German planes tried to bomb naval and military objectives on Saturday night, it is learned. Heinkel bombers tried to reach the Forth Bridge but were beaten! off by British fighters and never got within bombing distance of the bridge.
The first civilian casualties of the war in the Orkney Islands, if not in the British Isles, occurred during the German air raid on Scapa Flow.
Mr, Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, told the House of Commons this afternoon that he would deal with the German air attack on Scapa Flow im his regular war statement tomorrow.
man residing near a civil wero~ drome at Stromness was Killed by a high explosive bomb while standing within the doorway of his home Watching tracer bullets and anti aircraft shell bursts. The bomb was one of nineteen dropped by an escaping. nomy line. The dead man leaves widow and an infant son. The same bomb injured two of his neighbours, both men, who were standing at their doors. The cottage of an elderly woman was Wrecked. The women crawled "from. the Wreckage and collapsed on the road.
Another woman and an olderly man also "were Injured.
More than filly high explosive bombs os weill as many scores of stmaler Incendiary bombs fall in West Orieney, As windows were shattered residents of the area threw themselves in ditches to avoid debris which flow twenty fect and sometimes forty feet n the air.
"The German planes flow over Kirk= wall-og low as 2,000 fect. "Very few people took shelter, preferring to Watch the biggest raid yet made on Orkneys and Scapa Flow, Terrific flashes from guns lit up the whole roution, and explosions occurred every fow minutes during the raid, Sear gem EERreet jammed. "The plane passed right wer eir masthead" the sailor mid we could have suk er i the jun had not jammed 'The mate and second engineer of tne" Beaeonlea fired on. the' German planes with sion, One of these gunt Esso Jammed, but the second engines aid he's cvsin he had itin Gee= man plane once.
Another member of the Avonde crew said the trawler was headed for port during' the 'Scapa' Flow raid
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