Winston Churchill, in a telegram tom day, expressed his sincere gratitude and' admiration for the eon-ribullons fof Spitires from the Netherlands East Indies to his "Birthday Fund."
An, attempt was made to bomb some"small ships in the Channel but ins replied f0 effectively that ichers were driven of In. the evening heavy gun fire inet towns as British and German lous guns fought a violent artillery duel across the Straits of Dover." 1 was still continuing after: the shelling had been in progress an hour—Reuter,
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