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Evening Star, Issue 23677, 10 September 1940, Page 10

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RAIDS OX KNGLAND. A 'British official wireless message states: Between 5 ami (5 p.m. on Monday, after a morning ~f calm. Germany lan ached another -‘ioO aircraft at south-east Ragland and the London area. Successive waves of bombers and fighters crossed the coast between North Foreland and Hastings. Wherever they turned thev were engaged by R.A.F. tight‘te ers, new squadrons taking op the attack from point to point. As the enemy crossed the Kentish coast British lighters were ready. They fought them over the rolling woods of Sussex, across the hopfields of Ixent, above the commons and downs of Surrey, and over the streets anil houses of London. They pursued them hack over the Fuglish Channel on the return journey. Anti-aircraft guns also helped to harass the enemy. In the evening tlie objective apparently included 11.A.F. stations in southern England and, various industrial targets as well as -London. Many of the enemy planes, however, wore driven back before reaching any of their objectives inside London. The Royal Canadian squadron of the It.A.F. fought probably its greatest battle over the si reels of London itself, it met the enemy on ihe south side of the Thames and chased him upriver from London Bridge In Hammersmith. Tins squadron destroyed Ihree Doraier bombers, three MesserseluuiU- 110 lighter-Ijonibers, and four Messerschmitt lOß’s.