Enemy airmen, favoured by the moonlight, attacked London on the
nights of last Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Six machines came up the Thames on Saturday ; one crossed the defences, dropping a few bombs in the eastern outskirts and one in the south- west district. Eleven people were killed and four injured. On Sunday six or seven machines came by the same route ; again only one machine penetrated the curtain of shells, and flew across London from the south-east to the north-west, dropping bombs. Nieeteen persons were killed and thirty-four injured. On Monday night the raiders crossed the Essex coast, but all were turned- back by our anti-aircraft defences, without doing any harm. A raid on Dover last Saturday night, an hour after the first attack on London, was beaten off, and one of the raiders was driven-down-into-theses,.
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