Ten Killed as Police Fire on Strikers London, Apr. 3, A German aircraft was shot down by a British fighter off the Yorkshire coast today to become the 52nd German plane brought down in the vicinity of the British coastline since the beginning of the war.
The fight was touch-and-go until the British Spitüre got in two decisive bursts of machinegun fire which sent the swastika-marked craft down to crash in the sea, 12 miles from. the coast, All five occupants of the plane were rescued by a British trawler; two of them were found to be injured and were sent to hospital as Soon as they were landed, The three others were unhurt and were Ndola, N.R., Apr. 4. Ten natives were killed and nine seriously injured when troops fired on native strikers in the Nkana concession of the Luangwa district yesterday. Trouble started when 3,000 strikers tried to interfere with 150 other natives while they were drawing their pay. Police tried to disperse the strikers with tear gas bombs. This proved ineffective and troopers fired a few rounds in the air.
This also failed to deter the crowd so firing continued. The troops refrained from shooting in self-defence until the police had suffered 14 casualties from stone-throwing. Eventually the crowd withdrew.—Reuter. made prisoners-of-war, The Spitfire itself was also damaged and caught fire at the close of the fight. Its pilot, showing extreme coolness in trying circumstances, brought it down on the sea, however, and kept the plane afloat until he was rescued, unhurt.
It was reported meanwhile that another German raider was sighted over the Shetlands today, but escaped it the clouds before British planes could attack.—Havas
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