Tokyo, Jan. 21. Sir Robert Craigie, British Am-
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From a north of England fighter station, two pilots went off at midday and despite poor visibility brought down a Heinkel bomber which bad been trying to destroy a helpless fishing boat. Almost at the same time, another Heinkel, trying to bomb a merchant ship, was intercept-. ed by British fighters. off the Firth of the Forth. One of the fighters fired a burst and put the rear gunner in the Heinkel out of action. After ^his the German plane dived into the clouds and escaped.
There was considerable Royal Our Force activity off the east coast of England yesterday following S.O.S. from the London steamer Jersey Queen (910 tons). Listeners ashore heard the signal on their wireless sets. The voice explained that "we are being attacked by enemy aircraft," and reported that another ship was also being attacked. British fighters went up, several formations passing over east coast towns, Trawlers Machine-Gunned It is revealed that several Grimsby trawlers were machine-gunned and bombed by German planes yesterday, but that none was lost. The skipper and mate of one trawler were killed by machine-gun fire.
Off an east coast town, a Heinkel bomber swooped down on a patrol vessel which began zigzagging. Two bombs were apparently dropped and water was thrown up but the ship did not appear to be damaged and continued on her way as the plane made off. The plane later appeared to be playing hide and seek in the clouds with RAF, planes, which had earlier driven off another big grey machine, After they, had chased the frst one out to sea, the other appear-over a town on the Scottish east coast yesterday that one almost crashed into a church spre.
With the gunner out of action, another Heinkel escaped into the clouds off the Scottish coast yesterday after having been intercepted by &ghters.
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