THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 4, 1940.
SCREEN OF SHELLS AT VARYING HEIGHTS
The German marauders had a great shock when, for the fifth time in suc- cession, they spent the whole night raining. bombs indiscriminately on the London area.
On previous occasions their of- ficial communiques had referred gleefully to the small amount of anti-aircraft fire. This time the aircraft were met by a terrific barrage from hundreds of guns of all calibres, which fired at them from all angles. Because many
of them had not fired before, the enemy presumed that they did not exist. Now they know better.
The guns
operated on а
barrage system, the shells ex- ploding in vast screens at different heights. It had the effect of sending the invaders up to altitudes from which they could not alm, and
take proper of driving them hurriedly from one area to another.
A number of the German bomb- ers were also hit and several brought crashnig to earth. Many others obviously thought discre- tion the better part of valour, and although the number of aircraft employed was as large as on pre- vious nights, a proportion turned back. Those which elected to re- main found that the guns gave them few opportunities of con- centrating their bombing on any desired district,
WHAT A PARACHUTE FLARE LOOKS LIKE
One of the great flares that lit up the countryside in South-East England near the outskirts of London during a recent raid provided the light for this photograph. The light lasted for half an hour and the picture was obtained with an exposure of thirty seconds.(Copyright, Fox.)
MONTEREY SAILS
FROM SHANGHAI
HAMPERS FOR THE
The first American evacuation GERMANS
liner, the Monterey, left Shang- bai at midnight last night with about 350 evacuees on board for America via 'Australia.
NEW AIR FORCE
APPOINTMENT
20,000,000
1,500,000
$10,000,000
Reserve Liability of Pro
$20,000,000
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