Big Aerial Engagement Reported Over German Fortified Island of Sylt; Danes Hear Battle London, Jan, -19.
presence of fighter patrols of the Royal Air Force over the North Sea is making it steadily more difficult for Germany's latest activities on the sea in form of mine-laying by seaplanes, and indiscriminate bombing and machine-gunning of merchantmen and fishing boats, according to an authoritative source.
Since the commencement of the patrols, there have only been one or two instances of mine-laying by seaplanes, Coastal Command aircraft of the! Royal Air Force on daily reconnaissauce patrols have destroyed a num: ber of German raiders—Reuter, Engagement Near German Island Copenhagen, Jan. 10, Meavy anti-aircraft fire from the southern part of the German island of Sylt was heard yesterday morning, Ig reported from Toender.
At the same time ten big German planes went up from an aerodrome at List, at the northern end of the 1s~ land, "and flow directly south. A ttle Inter five Messerschmitts took! to the air from Schleswig, Just south of the Danish frontier, and few west ward, Tntensive gunfire was heard soon afterwards, probably from warships, It fo thought action may have taken place in the Heligoland region.
'Two hours later five planes, coming. from the northwest, passed over List and ye explosions were heard immediately afterwards, 'These explos-fons, it is believed, occurred in the Sylt' towns of Ranton and. Keitun. There was heavy anti-aircraft fire the whole time and machine-gun fire from the five planes was also heard. Considerable activity continued over Sylt throughout the day, with planes coming and going—Reuter.
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