London, Jan, 30. GQERMAN aircraft yesterday made their most ambitious series of attacks on British shipping to date, it was learned when! vessels reached port last night.
Despite severe weather conditions and poor visibility, RAF. fighter vs engaged the raiders and drove them off at many' points.
raid warnings, lasting from fifteen minutes to an hour, were given in seven north-east coast towns during the day. In Yorkshire warnings were sounded at a point forty miles inland, but an Air Ministry communique stated no enemy aircraft crossed the coast, In the Tyne area anti-aircraft guns opened fire and fighters went up.
The Air Ministry announced this afternoon that the "enemy is repeating the widespread attacks on cast coast shipping which they undertook yesterday." "Reports sovfar, it cone Uinues, indicate that early this morn dug reconnaissance aircraft appeared. off the east coast, but disappeared to sea on the approach of Royal Air Force fighters, "One enemy aircraft attacked shipping off Yarmouth but was pursued by fighting coastal patrol alter aft, with results not yet known." The Ministry slates that a German alreratt was shot down by a Royal Air Force Command aircraft off the cast coast. Reuter is authoritatively normed that the plane was shot
land.
net the coast of Northamber-'Two German bombers were observed off the east coast of Scotland this morning at less than 600 fect, with a British plane in. close pursuit 'The Tron Cross was distinctly seen fon the wings, and the Swastika on the tail, 'The machines were ap~ parently intercepted before they proceetled' far, The aircraft seen off an east coast town Drought crowds from houses. Atany persons saw the Heinkel bom-bor pass over the foreshore at a hhoight of Jess than 1,000 geet. The crew could be seen in the cabin. The Machine twice circled a Jighthouse at the harbour entrance and thea made off to. sea, Mourners at a funeral service were amorly those startled when explosions from the sea shook the town, Houses all over the town rattled, and even in tare: buildings rumblings could be heard beneath the round, Sounds resembling machine-gun fire were heard. British machines went up. A housewife said woomed that a big grey plane was making its way northward. "T hear a sound as if a gun had been fired, she said. "A patch of smoke showed from the grey plane and then three planes come from the north. The! rey plane made out to sca, and the others followed. I. think. they were 'Another machine, believed to. be German, flew over' a Kentish coast town,
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