Some of the raiders which gave London six "alerts" yesterday were engaged over the East End district. Watchers on City roof-tops saw the climax. British fighters surrounded the raiders, shepherded them together, and then dived, making head-on and rear attacks, The Germans fled towards the Kent coast.
Both on their way to and from London, it is revealed, some of the German planes dropped bombs on Kent coastal areas.
The day's activity began at 8 am, when German aircraft, operating singly, made several brief raids. They came not only over the south but east coast as well A few bombs, says the Air Ministry, were dropped at isolated points in south-west England, south Wales and Essex, resulting in little damage and few casualties, Tour of Inspection Said Planned Through Southern Areas Not Yet Under Japanese Control Hanoi, Oct. 3.
former head of the Japanese military mission to French Indo-China, Maj.-Gen. Issaku Nishihara, will leave here within a few days on an extensive "pleasure trip" through southern Indo-China, it was learned here last night.
Disclosure that Gen. Nishihara is planning a tour of inspection t under Japanese control coincided military arrive here today.
his appointment to his new post he was head of the Army Artillery in Tokyo and formerly was Japanese military attache in Paris.
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