Last night's hammering of enemy invasion bases across the Channel has provided a terrific crescendo to a fortnight's bombing activities during which fire and destruction have been sown in German-occupied ports and dockyards ranging over 800 miles of line from Cherbourg to Ham-
Shortly before midnight antiaircraft fire was steady from many outlying points of the city, occasionally reaching tremendous peaks. Searchlights were widely active for the first time in a week, Up to midnight few bombs had been heard in the London area and no fires were visible.
Between sixty and seventy German bombers flying up the Thames Estuary toward London early last night Were driven off by Royal Air Force fighter planes before they could unload their bombs.
The raiders came speeding up the Thames Estuary at various heights and in squadrons of about twelve each. Before they reached London, a large number of R.A.F. fighter planes swooped down and scattered them, Eye-witness reports of the giant air battle reported that the German planes were dispersed on a wonder-
Plane Not Heard from for Seventeen Hours Savannah, Ga., Sept. 22. d States Army authorities last "as British bombs find such, useful targets as docks closely packed with shipping just so long is the R.A.F. justified in attacking these invasion, as their. main objective, he adds.
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