Later a number of Messersehmitts crossed flying very high, but British fighter patrols drove the majority of them back across the Channel. A machine-gun attack was made slong the front of one town, but no easual= ties have been reported.
Early morning workers in a London area saw a Nazi plane firing tracer bullets at two barrage balloons. Antiireraft guns went into action and the plane sheered off leaving the balloons intact "High explosive and incendiary bombs were scattered over a wide area in London and suburbs which were again the subject of the enemy's main "attack last night," says official account of the German night Yalds. "Houses and commercial Dulldings were damaged, cousins some fires, but none of them were of fan extensive character and all were soon under control "Some persons were killed and jured, but having regard to the widespread scale and indiscriminate nature of the attacks, the number of casualties is not heavy according to information at present available Reuter, will have their place in the history of this war and in the history of the nation"—Reuter.
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