Simla, Sept. 15. further contingent of Mahan prisoners of, war, consisting of 68 Omieere and. 414 other ranks, arrived India today.
over "1.000" prisoners of war now in custody at. Ahmad Batavia Welcomes Dutch Offer Batavia, Sept. 14.
The announcement by Queen Wilhelm ina in n broadcast speech of her offer to purchase Spitfires and bomb. fers on Behalf of Britain has caused the reatest satisfaction here.
'A committee has already been established here to collect funds for this purpose. On the first day of its operation the committee sent £5,000 40. England to buy. planes.
The committee, in which British and Dutch In the Netherlands East Indies are cooperating, hias asked that ae far ay possible planes should be named after islands in the archipelago and be flown by Dutch pilots—Meuter, Earlier the R. A. F. engaged an unprecedented number of German Domibers over London in a spectacular daylight air battle which prevented the Germans from inflicting heav' damage or casualties on the capita esterday.
The greatest number of R.A.F. ghter planes ever seen over London intercepted wave after wave of Ger~ man bombers and drove them off before they could drop their cargoes of death and destruction.
"The German planes attacked London at high altitudes, apparently in am tempt to avoid the capital's antialreratt batteries, the most formidable ever assembled.
Before the seventh alr alarm was sounded here, continuous gunfire was! audible from the east, where flashes of shells and bombs and tracer bullets Aighted up the skies.
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