Arizona republican., 1917-07-23
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LONDON, July 22.-Another daylight
 this morning resulted in the repulse of
 about twenty German airplanes after
 they had dropped number of bombs over F'elixstowe and Harwich, killing
 eleven persons and injuring twenty six.
 An alarm was sounded in London but
 before the Germans could reach any
 point near the city they were attacked
 heavily by defending squadrOns of air
 craft, which caused them to beat a
 hasty retreat The damage to property is insignificant.
 An official report issued this evening says a royal flying corps patrol en- countered several machines returning to their base and brought one down al sea, near the Belgian coast.
 The morning broke bright and sunny but a thick haze soon appeared. Al about o'clock the enemy machines were seen flying toward the coast. They received a hot reception and were hard ly we'll over the coast before their for nation was broken up. They dropped bombs hastily before retreating. Observers say that the gunfire which followed the section which went dowr the Essex coast reached a pitch of un- usual intensity. It was the movements of this squadron which caused the fir ing for the first time of new warning signals in London. British planes pur- sued the Germans well out to sea fighting vigorously all teh time but handicapped by the low visibility. Re ports of heavy firing from various quarters indicate that the authorities
 have made considerable improvement in the defenses since the last raid over London.
 Today's attempt lasted barely two
 hours. Thousands of persons turned out
 along the coast when the British planes
 went up, in the hope of seeing battles
 in the afr, but the combatants soon dis
 appeared in the haze.
 A correspondent of the Exchange
 Telegraph company telephoned from the Isie of Thanet that warning signals counded in a number of coast towns and that q number of airplanes whicf were already in the air proceeded ir the direction of the firing, followed by fighting planes. Soon the signal that l the raiders had been driven off was given
 A correspondent of the News of tht World wires that seven German Taubes crossed the Essex coast, flying from thu west at 45 o'clock this morning. 9th CTS followed at intervals until 9:30. II 1 all about twenty machines passed an( | disappeared toward the sea without !, dropping bombs.
 A correspondent in Essex of the Ex l change Telegraph company reports tha he witnessed an aerial battle that last | ed almost an hour. A squadron of sever German aircraft, traVeing in a west erly direction, encountered a number o | British planes, which compelled then
 to turn nortwhard. They went in thi direction about half a. mile and thel swerved to the east.
 1 One German machine was cut of l from the main body and surrounded b | three British airplanes winch drove 1
 in the opposite direction until all fou
 were lost in the haze. The pursuit o
 the others continued, all the machine | climbing to a greater height as the fougth. They attained an altitude o 15,0 900 to 1S000 feet and soon were los to sight. t%gj About an hour after the first warn ing the police appeared on the street with placards announcing that all wa
 clear.