ENEMY AIR RAID
BOMBING OF KENT AND LONDON, (Australian and N'Z. Cable ' Association.) (Reuter'B Telegram.) (Received Deceriiber 7, 12.40 p.m.) ' * — LONDON, Dec. 6. ; Official : Twenty-fiv© etiemy aeroplanes participated iri a raid on Eingland cully this mprning. "The first group was sighted, at 1.30. Tt bombed' places on and near the coast Of Kent. : ' A secohd proceeded up the Thames and penetrate- some distance in,t*> Kent. Both groups, caa'ried out preliminary attacks with the object of drawing gunfire and exhausting the defehces. An hour * ila*ter a seribtia attack developed. .Two g*roups crossed the Esse* coast, and three civassed the Kent coast, Converging on London,- and. making* Sat effoi'tto deliverfive shnultanebl-is attacks from the north-east of Esefex. . ' \"'\% Gunfire 'turned back one group. Not more than five or six machines petfet'iW ed.Londqn. ' , v : , The High Gomriiissioner repoi'ts:— ; . LONDON, Deceniher 6. 2.30 p.m: X. Twenty-five aeroplanes .J-jombed Kci*i| and London this morning.,* ?; Not more than nVc.«or six penetrate^ as far as London. V Two machines were brought down and the crews captured alive.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14473, 7 December 1917, Page 3
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