In destroying 185 planes on Sunday, the Royal Air Force and ground defences created n new record, bettering the previous mark registered on August 15 by four planes.
The Sunday night attack ended 537 am. today afler heavy aerial combats were fought from the Kent cast to the Thames Estuary. The east and north-east districts of the German planes which failed to fall in England were so badly damaged that they could not reach their bases, the announcement added.
Italian planes with green, red and) while stripes on their wings, were reported to have joined the Germans in yesterday's attacks on England, but British officials reserved comment on Mose reports last night.
Eye-witnesses. insisted that they dentined Italian planes in the air' and Inst Saturday's newspapers told of Fascist raiders over England who} were alleged to have dropped medallion rings bearing Premier Musso 's head and the inscription "We Strike Hard united Prose
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