London, Sept. 4.
For over an hour yesterday afternoon the heaviest drum fre from anti-aircraft batteries yet heard here rolled across the Channel from the French shore, punctuated by much heavier explosions, apparently bombs, in another surprise Royal Air Force reid on German gun positions and troop concentrations on the French coast.
The explosions began around Calais on the opposite side of the Channel and gradually spread until they must have covered 20 miles of the French coast. The explosions died away 16 or 18 times, but again sprang up as the British bombers apparently returned to their objectives.
Coincidentally, the first anniversary of Britain's entry into the war was one of the quietest days Dover itself has known in a long time. Only one Messerschmitt tried some "balloon busting," but was driven off by antiaircraft gunfire after missing all targets.
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