Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-02
Nozis, Twice Repe||ed, Reach
London on Days Third Raid;
Rumonio Warned by Reich
Six Days Of High Tides
Put Nation on Guard
Against Invasion
BULLETIN.

LONDON (P.-The Air Min
istry announced late today that
rs German planes had been shot
down in air fighting over Britain
since last midnight.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. German air
raiders, twice repealed, broke through
London's defense in third raid this
afternoon. Bursts of anti-aircraft
fire broke around Is Nazi bombers
after London's second air raid alarm
OF the day was sounded at 4:24 pm
The bombers, which seemed to be
Swallowed by a force about 1000
feet above them, took refuge in a
cloud bank as anti-aircraft bursts
continued to pepper the summer
skies.
A squadron of British fighting
planes sped over the city toward the
German planes as watchers in the
streets cheered.
A dull throbbing from scores OF
motors-British and German-was
heard in the streets as cloud banks,
: spotted here and there by barrage
balloons, hid the fighters, but occa-
sional bursts of machine-gun fire
could be heard.
The all-clear signal sounded at
$50 pm, an hour and % minutes
after the first alarm.
so Planes in First Raid.
Two earlier raids had met q stone
wall resistance in which the raiders
were reported to have lost at least
Is planes.
First formation of so Nazi craft,
centered about two huge four-mo-
tored bombers, was broken up in a
battle over the Thames Estuary, the
waterway to London.
The second raid occurred on the
southeast coast early this after
noon. Four waves of f1ghter-escorted
bombers-each of about so planes
were tackled by British fighters and
anti-aircraft fire and turned back
across the Channel.
Two planes were seen diving to
earth, shooting up plumes of smoke,
and two others were believed also
to have crashed.
The raiders, roaring over the
coast so low they could be counted
by ground observers. penetrated
only few miles inland before Brit
ish fighters were in the air to stop
them.
Tides Favor Invasion.
Up to 1 pm. the Air Ministry
said, British fighters had shot down
nine German planes and had lost
four of their own. One British
pilot, however, escaped.
The beginning of a six-day period
OF high tides favoring sea invasion
put Britons on special guard.
A 46-minute alarm was in effect
In London this morning
The four-engined German "mon-
ster" bombers which formed the
center of the mass formation attack
ing Southeast England this morning
were identified by neutral air
source as Junkers COS, the large mill
tary planes used by the Nazis as
troop transports in Norway.
British sources said there was no
evidence the bombers were carrying
troops and claimed the use Of such
planes showed the Nazis slowly are
becoming deficient in other bomber
types, such as Heinkels and Dor
niers."
115-Fo0t Widespread.
The planes, with a wingspan of
lis to 100 feet and close to 100 feet
long, can carry crew of five and
sixteen 250-pound bombs, or
smaller number of larger missiles.
The Junkers Dos have been in pro-
duction about nine months.
Games ALI the Worlds Aircraft
lists the Junkers 30 as 40
passenger commercial plane, the
Junkers 80 as a military version
of the Junkers 90)
The sortie followed night of
quiet In the capital and only scat
tered raids over the rest of the
country. Seven coastal towns, how
ever, were subjected to chain"
raids for seven hours by planes fly
ing In relay. Little damage was
reported.
The Air Ministry said one night
attack was concentrated along the
Bristol Channel.
In the heightening tension mark
ing conclusion of Britain's first year
at war, the British showed conf
dence in the R. A. F.'s ability to
stand up under the German attacks
and battle the Luftwaffe to stand
still.
Few Planes Get Through.
H1,ov cjfed official ren0rtS that