After the raid had been in progress for an hour, two vivid sheets of orange flame shot up from a point east of Boulogne, accompanied by violent explosions which shook doors and windows of houses on the Kent coast, and soon afterwards a bright red glow spread across the sky, apparently from a fierce fire which was itself screened by a bank of fog in Channel.
Little German air activity occurred over Great Britain yesterday.
During the morning, stated the Air Ministry, bombs were dropped by a single German aircraft on a town on the north-east coast of Scotland. injuring a small number of people.
Another plane in the afternoon attacked a town on the east Anglian coast where some damage was done end there were a number of casualties, including some which were fatal.
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