HORDES OF PLANES.
APPROACH ALONG NEW ROUTES.
VERY FEW GET NEAR LONDON.
("Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, October 1. Six times on Tuesday the Gormans sent hordes of 50 planes to raid England. Some reached the London arch but most were turned back or chased away. A few bombs wore dropped.. Experts think the raiders were on an extoiisitve rcctonrtaissance. New routes to London were tried. The first batch made a circular sweep tp the Thames Estuary from the Kentish coast. At mid-day raiders crossed the Narrows and circled to enter London from the north-west . In the. afternoon raiders tried a direct route to South London, or split into small parties to embarrass the British fighters. Very few were able to roach even the fringe of London.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 305, 2 October 1940, Page 5
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