Confidence was growing among the popütace that. Ale pew British methods o an artillery barrage against the German raiders would be successful. Yesterday and last night German bombers for eight hours did their utmost to penetrate the ring of around the capital, but only a few monel, in breaking through. afternoon a lotov breadbasket.
During ind alarm yesterday parently started a fire in a building which had previously been wrecked by a high explosive bomb. Another
a ing. bomb fell on the roof of The raid yesterday morning was the longest in London to date. Antiafferaft batteries sent up a heavy barrage intermittently for three hours on both sides of the Thames Estuary, Where some bombs were dropped. Machine-gunning and cannonading could be heard high above the clouds.
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