The Archive · 1934

Air Defences of London

London. July 25.

London's alr defences have proved themselves, in "manceuvres, to be ood and Londoners may feel that the event of enemy air attack, they are comparatively safe.

Considerable success by the defending aeroplanes is chronicled in the oficial narrative of the last phases of the air attacks on London.

Mist last night prevented fighters from flying and enabled bombers to bomb the Air Ministry, Dagenham and. Wormwood Scrubbs prison, but, fon the contrary, the fighters this morning intercepted and very rough-handled four squadrons of raiders attacking the capital—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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