First Enemy Air Raid Fails; Allied Planes Bomb Rhineland Areas; Raid Over Paris Repulsed London, Sept. 6. [HE first enemy air raid attempt on Great Britain took place at about 6.30 a.m., but proved unsuccessful, as the German bombers were driven off before they had a chance to drop any of their missiles.
Several fights of planes were seen today making for London, but it was impossible to tell whether they were British or German, For the time being, all is quiet.
The syn shone today from a clear sky, and crowds of people stood outside thei air raid shelters gazing upwards after the sounding of the air raid alarm. Suddenly, an jreraft guns opened fire, and the sky was filled with smoke caused by bursting shells.
Several squadrons of British planes roared overhead, and the sound of machine-gun fire could be plainly heard.
The raiding planes were then too high to be seen, The "all-clear" signal was Yeceived from Chatham at about 9 a.m.
Anti-aircraft gun could distinctly be heard from Southend. No guns were fired in Essex, and apparently no enemy planes reached that county.
One ARP. worker, today's raid, "declared: 830° am, T saw what appeared. to be German bombing planes flying high "and very", fast." There was plenty of gunfire."
'People in North' London distinctly, heard' the sound of distant gunfire, One man said he saw six aeroplanes, ying in two formations of three each. They were, he added, fired at by anti-nireratt batteries, ud were driven off. Later, the six planes returned, but were again driven off, he stated,
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