Another section of the raiders, meanwhile, visited Emden and bombed docks and petroleum sheds on the west side of Altebinnen Hafen. The attack went on for one hour.
Several large fires, which threw out thick black smoke, were started in the petroleum sheds, and the quay, and a barge were hit.
The first raider to reach Flushing found a semi-circle of flat (ani craft) ships drawn up round the har-hour entrance. They immediately opened an intense barrage. Light and heavy shore batteries joined in, and high-angle machine-guns also added their quota.
Throygh this barrage one of the raiders flew at 600 feet. One pilot "We got direct hits on dock gs and presumably an ammunition dump, as there were large fires and tremendous explosions, ich were still going off as we hea ed out to sea again.
"From 15 or 20 miles out, despite the filthy weather, we could still see the explosions when we were flying at 500 feet."
Cairo, Sept. 14. is strong evidence to be found in Syria that Frenchmen ate growing more and more desirous of rallying to General Charles de Gaulle, according to trustworthy information from Syria which has reached Reuter here.
This growing sentiment is attributed, firstly, to the great bravery shown by Britain in face of German air raids, and sec-endly, to the rallying
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