The London defences were put to the test again on
Tuesday night, and this time were completely successful. Fifteen raiders *noosed the coast, but none contrived to penetrate to London. One enemy, approaching from the north, circled round to the west and south-west of London in an attempt to find a gap in the anti- aircraft barrage. His course was marked to the listener by the sound of the firing, the guns in each successive sector of the outer defences taking up the tale like well-trained instrumentalists in an orohestra. Failing to discover a weak spot, the enemy dropped his cargo of bombs in the south-western outskirts and disappeared. Three persons were killed and ten injured. In view of the great difficulties of protecting so large an area from sudden raids by very fast machines, the officers in charge of the London defences have, we think, done extremely well.
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