Crash after crash of German heavy explosive bombs rocked the London area shortly after mtenight last night as British anti-aircraft guns roared continuously in a vain attempt to disperse the death-defying might raiders, Relays of German planes. fying over the heart of London at great speed, evaded hundreds of bursting anti-aircraft shells and dropped tons: of whistling high explosive bombs on the city.
Despite the vicious shelling of tho} anti-aircraft batteries, the German raiders kept fying over the city like clockwork, new waves arriving over the city as fast as preceding waves could unload their bombs, The Air Ministry announced last night that British planes yesterday battled over 200 German fighter planes in a hundred mile an hour gale over Kent, Sussex, Surrey and the Thames estuary.
British fighters were said to have shot down four German planes while British anti-aircraft batteries on the south-east coast accounted for' two additional German planes.
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