QUIETEST FOR WEEKS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 99, 23 October 1940, Page 10

QUIETEST FOR WEEKS

RAID ON LONDON

FIGHT OVER CHANNEL

NAZIS DRIVEN BACK

LONDON, October 22

London has had its forty-sixth successive night raid tonight, and one observer described it as the quietest raid for weeks. There were few gun flashes and no searchlightsHeavier attacks are reported from the Midlands, and enemy aircraft are reported over Liverpool and another north-west town, a Welsh town, and a town in the south-west.

This evening a large formation of enemy aircraft crossed the French coast and was intercepted by British fighters. More than 100 planes are stated to have taken part in the fighting, which resulted in the Germans being driven back across the channel. Some damage and a few casualties were caused when bombs were dropped in one or two south-east towns. A street was machine-gunned. Three enemy aircraft have been destroyed today. Six British fighters were lost, btxt two of the pilots were saved. CONCRETE CASING GERMAN BOMBS A MOSCOW REPORT (Received October 23, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 22. The Moscow radio stated that Germany is using concrete casing for bombs dropped on Britain. The vast expenditure of metal has caused Germany to use substitutes. The concrete casing is not as strong as metal, but a concrete bomb has a sufficient pene- j trating power to pierce two or three! floors of an ordinary dwelling-house. It was also stated that-the German petrol incendiary was also a substitute for more expensive incendiary material, although the igniting power was smaller. The Associated Press learns that a Heinkel bomber shot down recently had its wheels tyred with rope. This is considered to be clear proof of the effectiveness of the blockade and also the R.A.F. bombing of German synthetic rubber works.