A Paris, Nov. 24.
British and French planes have shot down sixteen German planes in ihe past 72 hours, the French High Command announced last night as German aerial activity over the entire Western Front and deep into France reached exceptional proportions, With some German planes penetrating deep into the interior and flying over Paris at 20,000 feet, the British and French air patrols were reinforced to meet the sudden intensifcation of Nazi aerial activities, German aerial squadrons swarmed over eastern France in the greatest numbers since the outbreak of the European war and swept along the entire Western Front from the North Sea to Switzerland, French estimates today put the number of German planes shot down since the outbreak of the war at 60.—United Press.
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