THE DEFENCE OF LONDON
SUCCESS OF RAIDERS
(United Prsss Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, 26th July. The aerial "war" is going more and more against the London defenders. Tho raiders have repeatedly penetrated the defences, found their objectives, bombed them, and returned to their bases.
Already London has been proved easily bombable by day or night. Had the attack been real, large areas would have been laid waste. Defending 'planes have been aloft all day, but layers of clouds have prevented the discovery of the raiders.
Pilots who attacked the German raiders in war-time report that they have particularly missed the assistance of anti-aircraft batteries, which in actual warfare enormously assist the pilots in locating hostile machines. The upper layers of clouds are so high that the bombers are able to attack targets from 15,000 feet.
Out of six raids launched, two failed owing to the weather, two reached their objectives without being intercepted, and two were engaged in combat and adjudged to have been destroyed.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 24, 28 July 1927, Page 11
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