NO LET-UP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 222, 18 September 1940, Page 7

NO LET-UP.

R.A.F. ATTACKS. Many Hits Scored In Holland And Belgium. British Official Wireless. (Reed. 2 p.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 17. | : Daylight raids on Calais, Ostcnd and Dunkirk were carried out yesterday afternoon by medium bombers of the Royal Air Force. At Yeere. on the Dutch island of Walcheren, a concentration of bargee in the canal lock were bombed from a low level. Harbour installation* at Dunkirk and Ostend were attacked under cover of low clouds, and at Calais a salvo of bombs was seen to burst on the quayside of rhe outer harbour. A convoy of 12 barges and three escort vessels were intercepted and bombed off Zeebrugge, an attack was also made on three self-propelled barges, patrolling off Ostend harbour, which hove-to and opened fire on sighting the R.A.F. aircraft. Haamstede, on the Dutch island of Sehowven, was raided in the early afternoon. Bombs were dropped on an aerodrome in high level attacks, and German barge concentrations outside as well as inside invasion ports were also harassed during a series of daylight raids yesterday. A considerable convoy of enemy shipping off Calais was attacked and a stick of bombs dropped across the convoy from starboard to port. Another raider bombed barges tied up in twos and threes inside Zeebrugge harbour, and Zeebrugge itself was attacked, and it is believed a bomb struck a light railway running a lon- the mole. * r