WALL OF METAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1940, Page 5

WALL OF METAL

OPPOSED TO GERMAN AIRCRAFT BRITISH REPLY TO HITLER'S BOAST. RAIDERS PUT TO FLIGHT. LONDON. September 5. A wall of metal flung up by antiaircraft guns last night barred German raiders who appeared over the London area a few hours after Hitler’s threatened reprisals for the Royal Air Force raids on Germany. The anti-aircraft fire was the heaviest London has yet experienced. Shells were seen bursting in all directions, and sometimes as many as six burst in a cluster round the planes, which were merely specks caught in the glare of countless searchlights. The constant rumble of gunfire replaced the roar of London’s traffic, most of which halted. Several raiders dropped bombs before fleeing, pursued by light shells. The raid lasted 1 hour 40 minutes. More than 100 bombs were dropped in one area. One enemy parachute flare set fire to a food building. The enemy began a scries of scattered raids over England shortly after dark. Most of the damage and most of the casualties were in two towns in the north-west and south-west. it is stated.