Reports up to midnight indicate that at least 90 German aircraft were destroyed on Wednesda About 125 people were killed and 250 injured in raids on London on Wednesday evening, and in raids outside London 40 were killed and 170 injured, So fierce! did Spitfires and Hurricanes attack enemy formations yesterday afternoon that only a small proportion of the raiding bombers were able to reach their objectives, London docks, states the Air Mi ry news service.
The Germans opened an attack on a 150-mile front, Within a few minutes two big formations totalling about machines crossed the! coast between North Foreland ana Dungeness, 30 more simultaneously approaching the Southampton area. A smaller formation crossed near Dover with the object of attacking fighter aerodromes in Kent and Surrey.
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