London, July 1.
Five German Messerschmitts were shot down over France yesterday flernoon, it is officially stated.
Another was set on fire and probably' destroyed.
One formation of British Hurricanes encountered a patrol of Messerschmitt 09's. "The wing-commander of the Hurricanes Immediately attacked and shot down three machines himself. Two of these Messerschmitts fell in flames ten miles from the French coast British fighter pilots engaged in this section believe they shot down and destroyed two other Messere sehmitts At the same time, two Hurricane! pilots encountered five Messersehmitts hear Abbeville. They shot down two in Mames and badly damaged a Another formation of Hurricanes encountered a third patrol of Mes serschmitts, "One German machine went into a spin, with thick black Fmoke belching from it and a second thought to-have crashed into a Wood. Two others dived vertically For the ground, with clouds of smoke streaming from the engines——Reuter.
'Two German bombers are believed to have been brought down by anti-Aircraft fire' in north-east England shortly. before noon today.
Three Deaths on Saturday Three deaths, two from shock, and tone ten-year-old boy from falling de. bris, are now reported, as a result of German air raids over the British Isles on Saturday night.
number of bombs were dropped Scotland. They. all fell in open fields, and little damage was done.
Twenty-four bombs dropped in villages in south-east England, but only. caused broken windows.
"The Mahan High Command considers. the time ripe for an attack Against British forees, which have £0 far been protected by ihe neutrality of Egypt," states the Rome wireless The announcer adds that demilitartiation, under the terme of the armistice recently concluded, frontier zones of the French in North Africa, would an "added ad "The Ballan military machine can launched ayainst the Eyyptian frontier, wong the road built" By
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