AT SEA: Tovey for Forbes

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    *A story of how the R. A. F. blasted Germany's last big attempt at a drive across the Channel, on Sept. 16, was last week published in Britain. On the 15th, Reich Marshal Goring flew over Britain in person to watch Luftwaffe's heaviest bombings to that date — the covering barrage for the invasion attempt. That day the British shot down 185 Nazi planes, their all-time high. On the 16th, the R. A. F. beheld thousands of German troops being loaded into powered barges and other transports. The British bombed them unmercifully and a westerly gale came up to batter them. So the expedition was abandoned, the troops disembarked in frightful confusion. From Spain, Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express last week received reports that, as a result of that smashing day, some 60,000 wounded Germans were still hospitalized as far south as Bordeaux, as far inland as Paris.

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