A score of enemy aeroplanes made a raid on London
early on Tuesday evening, in the faint light of the new moon. Three groups crossed the Essex coast and three others came across Kent. Five of the enemy machines penetrated the barrage fire of our defences and reached London, where they dropped bombs between 7 and 8 o'clock. A single machine came over London all hour later. Our pilots engaged three of the enemy at a great height, above the capital. Ten persons were killed and seventy injured in Loudon ; five were injured in other places. Several fires broke oat, but the material damage done was not serious. One raider on the return journey was brought down by gunfire off the coast of Kent, and two out of the three airmen were picked up from the sea. Another raider may have fzdlen into the Channel. Though the attack occurred at a time when the working population was returning home or going to places of amusement, there was no sign of panic and the crowds sought places of shelter with complete unconcern.
