Evening star., 1940-11-05
Germans Beaten Off
As London Defenders
Down Three Planes
Nozis Are Turned Back
Over Southeast Coast;
British Lose Three Ships
nv the Associated Press.

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BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Nov. 5.-Three Ger
man planes we're shot down over
England today, the Air Ministry
announced, as the Nazi air force
tried in vain to fight past the de-
Tending planes and bomb the
capital.
Londons fourth AFRAID warning
of the day came late in the after
noon, but all four warnings were
brief.
The German planes apparently
were shot down when they tangled
with the R. A. F. high over the
southeast coast as the Nazis resumed
formation attacks after night of
vide-ranging lone wolf" assaults
The Air Ministry said three British
planes we're destroyed, but the pilots
were saved.
London had two brief alarms be-
fore noon, but no bombs fell in the
city and the British Press Associa-
ton said defense fighters had turned
raiding squadrons back short of the
capital.
One formation was said to have
reached the outskirts of the city be-
fore being driven off, while second
was reported broken up 40 miles to
the southeast.
Bombs were dropped on coastal
areas as dogfghtS ragged overhead,
and several houses were destroyed.
Weather flinders Activity.
Severe weather conditions" on
the continent limited sharply the
forays of Birtain's bomber squadrons
last night, but the Air Ministry
nevertheless reported attacks on the
Channel invasion ports" of Ostend,
Belgium, and Boulogne and lie
Havre in France with all British
planes returning safely.
London had a third brief raid
alarm in midafternoon, but no great
activity either by raiders or de-
tenders was heard in the capital
area.
The daylight assault was launched
by formation of % raiders which
crossed the Kent coast at an alti-
tude of almost miles, trailing pat
terms of smoke and exhaust vapor
Halfway across the channel the
planes split into two groups and
headed toward London, giving the
capital its first daylight alarm of
the day.
The alert, in effect only briefly,
found rescue squads still remov-
ing dead and wounded from the
vreckage of a large apartment
house which was damaged severe
ly by hit from a heavy bomb dur
ing the night.
Raids Fairly Heavy.
A government communique de-
scribed the raids, which followed
"a hours of comparative inactiv-
ity, as widespread and on a fair
iy heavy SCALE" but said casual
ties and damage were not heavy.
"a German high command
communique reported that Nazi
planes, flying in continuous
waves over the British capital"
dropped more than 1,500 bombs
of all sizes between pm. yes
terday and $50 am. today.
CThese assaults were declared
to have been made "notwith-
standing continuation of unfav-
orable weather" The Luftwaffe
also made destructive attacks
near Edinburgh and elsewhere
IN Scotland and at Liverpool and
Coventry, the high command re-
ported0
Invasion Ports Hammered.
Meanwhile, the Royal Air Force
though hampered by adverse
weather, was reported to have ham
mered again at Nazi invasion ports"
and airdromes in the occupied area
of France.
London, as usual, was the main
objective of the German night
raids. Bombs also fell, however, the
government said, on Merseyside, the
Liverpool dock area, on two towns
in the industrial Midlands and nu-
merous unidentified places in Scot
land and Southeast and East Eng
land.