No Heavy Damage Caused by German Bombers.
In lespread But Light Attacks London, Jan. 20. FIVE German bombers wore destroyed last night when London was bombed and two southeast coast towns were "fire blitzed" during widespread but not intensive raids, the Air Ministry announced today.
The "fire blitz" on the southeast coast towns was in a minor key and did not cause particularly heavy damage although some casualties were reported, The London alarm tasted from early evening to early morning but. was irvactically without incident except for few bombs in one district on the City's outskirts, British night fighters shot down 9 Heinkel bomber in lames near a farm lon the south coast. The plane's bombs exploded when It crashed and the four crew members were killed.
The second plane shot down was believed to have been hit by antly sireraft fire, It crashed into a village near the south coast town it had been raiding. Two members of the crow balled out and were being hunted for today, The other crew far members were killed, Antlalreraft fire also claimed a third German bomber which blew up in mid-air over southeast England, apparently when antiaircraft shells struck its load of bombs, "Watchers fu the ground saw a vivid red flash light up the sky, and then came a tremendous explosion, Seven German raiders in all have been destroyed since Wednesday, said reports here.
Raiders erossed the coast at several points and were reported in various provincial areas, including the West and Midlands, but little activity had been reported thus far except in one east Anglian town where some bombs were dropped but there were no casualties, The Alt and Home Security Ministries" joint communique listed only two raiders as_having been shot down. All the raids ended by an fearly hour this morning, the com munique also said, "In and town several. fires "we started but they were soon put out, the communique sold. "There were very few casualties anywhere."
Unfavourable weather forced both, the OF. and the Luttivafle to remain on the ground Saturday night fand last night's weather was not the best for raiding purposes.—United Press.
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