London, Nov. 23.
Antivaireraft guns on' the Essex coast opened fire late on Wednesday. AL one point, intensive machine-gun fire above the clouds was heard, An Air Ministry announcement stated that an air-raid warning was sounded in a district in Essex: shortly. before 10 o'clock on Wednesday might. An "atleclear™ signal is said to have been given a half hour later, Inter announcement made by the Air Ministry stated that German alt= craft Jost night approached the southeast coast. Anti-alreratt guns, it adds, pened fire, while Hoyal Air Force fighter machines were sent to intercept the "enemy" aeroplanes.
One German aeroplane is. said to have been shot down by anti-alreratt fire. A second "enemy" machine is reported to have been engaged and delve off by: the RAR. fighters A Royal Air Force seaplane lying at its moorings was set on fire by bombs when six German aircraft made the Shetland area yesterday.
"The attack was driven off by antiuireraft fire, and no casualties were suffered by' the defenders.
Details of the air raid show that the German' aircraft. frst. appeared over the area bombed by them nine days before. "They met with a violent ontisirerait fire, and turned and circled several times.
Seven hundred scheat children were leaving their schools for lunch when the. al raming was sounded. Most of them hurried "home, but a number was taken" Into air-raid shelters, where they passed their time singing.
Large crowds calmly watched the! German machines as they Mew close overhead Members of the crew of the bombed plane had narrow escapes. As they taped into the water, bomb fell close by.
Six British airmen were picked up by boats, and. the seventh swam ashore. None of them was injured, Before attacking the seaplane, the JGermans dropped missiles near a small Tnter-island mail steamer, which was hot hit—Reuter, Ale Alarm at Paris Paris, Nov. 23.
Anti-aircraft batteries on the outskirts of Paris boomed today ax air-alarms sent Parisians scurrying for cellars this morning. The alarm fasted for 58 minutes and ended at!
Tam. today.
No aircraft were seen however.
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