La Linea, Sept. 24.
Only 30 minutes after the cessation of a terrific three-hour aerial be bardment of Gibraltar by French planes, believed to be in retaliation for the naval bombardment of the French African port of Dakar, units of the British fleet steamed out of Gibraltar harbour, apparently heading for the Atlantic, Late. this afternoon, heavy can nonading was audible, Observers here Delievedt that the British naval forces wore preparing to strike at French Moroccan ports In answer to French bombing of The Rock.—Domei Bombing Said Reprisal Vichy. Sept. 25.
"As reprisals against the shelling of Dakar by a British naval squadron, 4 large number of French warplanes bombed Gibraltar on September 24." it was officially announced here today.
Over twenty tons of high explo-ives wore dropped" on the arsenal and the harbour=-Havas, RAP, Raids in Afric:
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