Evening star., 1940-09-06
London

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fiashlight to save as many patients
as possible, and one nurse clad in
nightdress crawled over the debris to
give morphia injections to wounded
patients.
One of the German planes shot
down was Messerschmitt which
crashed into a policeman's garden.
The pilot was captured unhurt.
Three members of a bomber crew
which crashed in flames over a
southeastern town during the grand
scale fighting this forenoon crawled
out unhurt. The other crewman had
baled out.
IL Bombers Challenged.
In the southeast district fighting,
British fighters challenged II Ger
man bombers flying in arrowhead
formation. One Spitfire opened the
battle by speeding straight into the
formation.
During the morning London alarm,
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watchers in the heart of the city
looking east over st. Pauls Cathe-
dral could see many smoke trails
from high-fying planes in the dis
tance.
The sky was criss-crossed with
white trails, as from an exhibition
of crazy plying, from the exhaustS
of planes staging dog fights. The
trails finally disappeared in the dis
tance. Sounds of machine-gun fire
also were heard.
Though the warning came as
Londoners were on their way to
work, most persons trudged on, re-
fusing to take shelter.
..--~~.~. Second Night Alarm. -----.-s
The longest alarm of the war
began at GIT O'Clock last night and
ended at 4:50 am. today. Just half
an hour after the all clear was
sounded sirens sounded again and
held the city under a 3l-rninute
alarm
The Nazis also lashed at the in
dustrial Midlands, Northeast, North
west and Southwest England and
Wales.
Although the raids were severe,
there appeared to be less activity
than in some previous assaults.
Gun flashes and the flare of bombs
on the French side of the Channel
last night indicated the Royal Air
Force again attacked Nazi air bases
and artillery emplacements.
Berlin underwent an air raid
alarm shortly after midnight,
and further evidence of r. A. F.
activity over the Continent came
in alarms over Switzerland, which
usually indicate British planes en-
route to Northern Italy
On the Mediterranean front, Brit
ish feet operations during a six
day period were reported in an ad-
miralty communique to have been
entirely successful, except that no
contact was made between our main
forces and enemy warships."
5 German BOmbers Claimed.
The statement added that the
British submarine Parthian, oper-
ating in the Central Mediterra-
mean, made two hits on an Italian
cruiser and destroyer force August
81 and that the Eastern Mediter-
ranean fleet shot down five German
-bombers which attacked Sep
tember 2.
In an attack Wednesday on the
Italian-held Dodecanese Islands
in the Eastern Mediterranean, the
communique said the fleet arm. led
by the cruisers Sidney and Orion,
left none of the surrounding build
ings intact" after blasting Italian
positions at Pegadi Bay.
In another report on the same ac-
ton, British naval headquarters in
Cairo said the feet air arm bombed
Italian airdromes in Rhodes, re-
porting loud explosions were heard
probably from ammunition dumps
and fires were observed in barracks
and other buildings" at Calato, and
at Martha two main hangers were
hit, petrol dumps, barracks and
workshops set af1re"