NEW NOTE HEARD
BOMBERS OVER LONDON
HIGHER-PITCHED DRONE
NIGHT ACTIVITY
LONDON, October 13
After a quiet start, tonight's antiaircraft batteries defending London gradually became more active, but the German attacks still do not appear to be particularly heavy.
Observers on roof-tops in the citysuggest that two types of planes are being used in tonight's raids. They heard the uneven drone to which Londoners have been accustomed and also a higher-pitched note, apparently of a faster machine.
Bombs have fallen in a number of districts in the London area since darkness, and though it is too soon to say what may happen before dawn, casualties and damage so far do not seem to be serious.
In other parts of the country German raiders dropped bombs upon a south-east town, where the Mayor's home was wrecked and he and his wife were trapped in the debris. Towns in the north-east and north-west were bombed and in one of them workers' homes were struck, one woman being killed and a man injured.
In a north-east coastal town some people were killed and a number of others were seriously injured.
Raiders were also reported over south Wales and the Liverpool area, and in East Anglia a night battle between German bombers and British fighters is reported.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 91, 14 October 1940, Page 8
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212NEW NOTE HEARD Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 91, 14 October 1940, Page 8
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