London, Oct, 10.
For the frst time four. British planes have carried out daylight re-Connaissance fights the -whole way along the German frontier from Prance to the North Sea, says "Eyewitness" (Mr, A. G. Clifford), who with the British alr force in France, The planes want to investigate the latest "reports received by head~ quarters from across the border in evacuation of import ant cities, big troop movements near in-Chapelle, significant concen-of aircraft, intensive bulld-ing of fortiteations' near the Luxembourg frontier, and many other interesting developments, their observations, dodging from one gap in the clouds to the next, 'At Coblenee, German anti-alveratt runners heard' them und opened Are, Presumably judging the range the direction by' sound, screamed through the clouds and burst all round them, but the planes were not hit and held. straight along their course, German gunners {elephoned ahead to other batteries, Jond when the British planes reached Sieburg, there was another barrage of anticaireraft fire awaiting them, This (00, however, they passed through unscathed, ' and held along the Belgian border over Aix-la-Chapelle. "Soon they saw the Rhine turn' west and disappear into Holland, and then the weather made impossible to see any more. 'They flew on to the North Sea coast of Germany, Then, carefully avoiding Holland, they went safely home Janding' eld in England, where they were expected.
The other pair of planes took off before dawn, and were already well over Germany when the sun Rose above the hills to the east of the the Rhine. They were favoured by better weather, and were able to take the photographs they were sent out to gel—Reuter, South African Defen
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