For twelve hours yesterday, however, German planes were over the British Isles almost continuously. Civilians, such as workmen on the beaches "and postmen delivering letters, were machine-gunned by the German planes.
Coastal. towns throughout the country echoed to antivaireraft, fire overhead from dawn until dusk Britons watched scores of ""dog-fight" between R.A.P. and German plane Intensified German air attacks on Britain coincided with reports that huge numbers of German flat-bottom boats were being concentrated at northern French ports, presumably to transport German soldiers across the English Channel in an attempt to invade the British Isles, "Limpea on"
The German raiders began coming over Britain early yesterday but three British Spitfires caught two of the first Dornier bombers off the east "Bases in Germany, especially in the Ruhr and on the' coast at Zee-Dbrugge, also were attacked, Other aerodromes in Belgium and Denmark, communications between. the Ruhr' and Westphalia, and objectives at Hamburg and) Dortmund were bombed.
Many German planes, apparently reconnaissance missions over British coastal areas, flew over hea encampments of the British Expeditionary Force and newly-enlisted men awaiting the German flat boat navy which is said to be massing in the Low Countries and in the ports of northern France.
Two of the most famous British pleasure piers on the south coast Ennounced laet night that band eon~ certs would be discontinued for. the uration of the war, Henceforth the public will be admitted to the piers only In the daytime-—Unsted Fess, Spain Will Not Be coast and shot one down in flames before it could drop its bombs. The other German plane disappeared into the clouds after being badly damaged.
About noon another British Aghter plane poured three bursts from its machine-guns into another Dornier off the north-east coast. This German plane was said to have "limped off {nto the clouds."
Best available estimates today of British air raid casualties since the beginning of the war placed the number of civilian dead at 91 with the wounded numbering about 350.
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