German bombers, escorted Aghter planes, attweked a convoy' in the Thames estuary. Squadrons of TLA.F, pursuit planes swooped down on the Germans and chased them out to sea, the Alr Ministry said One German fighter crashed near i troup of cottages in a south-east coast town, "Another Landed in a cornfield, The pilot of one German fighter plane baled out ju his parachute when his plane began to crash, His para~ chute broke away, however, and. crashed in a playing eld of a school and was killed. The pilot of another German plane which was foreed down was captured. "He was found to have been wounded and was removed to a hospital The Ministry of Home Security: issued a communique Inst night disclosing that bombs were dropped yesterday afternoon on a town. in South-eastern England. Stight dam-aye was inflicted and a fow casualties were reported, the statement said, No tone was seriously injured, the communique added.—United Press.
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