London, Aug. 24.
For nearly, an hour last night, the Royal Air Force again roared over he Boulogne and Calais area, drop ping scores of bombs, judging fror searchlight flashes and shrapnel burst-visible from the English south-west coast, A low-hanging mist prevented the British observers on the south-east coast from seeing bomb flashes.
The raid, which was staged about 10 p.m. was the second R, A.F attack on German gun positions on the French coast within 20 hours. property. There we ere no The Air Ministry termed last night's raids as "small scale activity "Bombs were dropped on a number of points in south-east and south-west England, one district in the Midlands and another in South Wales" the Air Ministry said.
"Some property was damaged in the Midlands, south Wales. Else-"Where there was very little damage done. Cosualties were very few. No fatal injuries were reported."
Early Attacks Individual German bombers and fighter escorts winged over England yesterday in small groups or singly and the Air Ministry again charged that German gunners were machine-gunning British civilians.
At 8 pin. yesterday (5 a.m. today, Shanghai D.L.T.). German planes were reported over a town in southeast England. In the afternoon, German planes dropped nearly 200 incen diary bombs in south-west England, apparently in an effort to destroy farm buildings and crops. Most of the bombs fell in orchards and meadows and did slight damage, it was reported.
A joint Air and Home Ministry Communique charged the Germans with carrying out "indiscriminate machine gun attacks" on civilians.
"Reports received up to 4 p.m. (1 am. Shanghai D.LT.) show that enemy activities over this country have consisted of attacks by a small number of aircraft operating singly in widely separated areas," the joint communique said. "Indiscriminate machinegun attacks were made in (Continued on page 2, col. 3
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