Over the Wire

FOLKESTONE, Eng. (Monday) -- British bombers shuttling in swarms across the Channel at 10-minute intervals heaped havoc upon Adolf Hitler's "invasion ports" last night and early today in the R.A.F.'s most savage assault upon the Nazi-held French coast.

Tons of bombs, crashing at times at the rate of 100 a minute spread a path of fiery destruction after a duel of unprecedented intensity between British and German long-range guns pointed at each other across the Channel.

At midnight the British aerial bombardment had been underway five hours and seemed to be increasing in its fury, with flight after flight of British planes taking off in an almost unbroken, droning arc above the Channel.