The Archive · 1940

Casualties in Latest Air Raid Not Numerous; Two Buses Hit

Seven German Planes Brought Down in Course. Battles; Nazi Ace Pilot Reported Captured

London, Oct. 9.

LTOGETHER seven German planes were brought down in th:

course of yesterday's continued German assaults on Grea: Britain, it has now been announced.

A bomb which fell on a main street in London seriously damaged two omnibuses and killed and seriously injured a mumber of persons during yesterday's raids.

"This was revealed in an official communique, which state: that duringethe morning enemy aircraft which flew over London at a great height were engaged by fighters and several shot down.

Bombo were dropped, but in spite of the fact that traffic wat at its height casualties were. not numerous. There were however some fatal injuries among railway passengers when a train wat hit by debris.

"A shelter and some industrial soner atter his plane had been shot down by a Spitfire into the ses by between Dover and Folkestone yes-low-flying aircraft. were dropped in other parts of south-east England during the morning but no serious damage or casual-fies have been reported.

At least three enemy planes were shot down during early engagements.

of the coastal command terday afternoon.

The pilot, a six-foot youngster. wore two iron rst and sec-and class—and'he escaped unhurt from his wrecked plane. Narrowly missing a spur of cliffs, the bullet-riddled plane spun into breakers close to shore.

The phot leaped out when the plane splashed into the water, waded ashore where sentries arrested him.

Russian Princess Killed Princess Catherine Galitzine, Rus* sian princess and friend of the Duchess of Kent, to whom she was distantly related, was killed during an air raid on London yesterday.

The Princess was

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