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ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN YESTERDAY IN RAIDS ON BRITAIN. POLISH SQUADRON BRINGS DOWN FOURTEEN. At least 90 German planes were destroyed in raids yesterday slates a Daventry broadcast. Fourteen were shot down over London by a Polish air squadron. Guns of all'calibre put up a tremendous barrage over London, which appeared to nonplus German raiders.
GERMAN CLAIM FIRES AT THAMES HAVEN. (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) BERLIN, September 11. The German News Agency announced that at 2 p.m. a German pilot reported that fires were still raging in oil depotsat Thames Haven, the greater part of which was destroyed. Big fires were seen in the Commercial and West India docks, and also in Kensington, near Hyde Park, and near Regent’s Park. TERRIFIC GUNFIRE OPENED AGAINST RAIDERS ON LONDON. (Received This Day 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, September 11. Terrific gunfire eclipsing everything so far throughout the raids was heard in central London at the end of the first hour of the night raid.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1940, Page 6
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