32 ARABS KILLED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 226, 23 September 1940, Page 7

32 ARABS KILLED.

RAID ON HAIFA. R.A.F. Reconnaissance Flights Over Enemy Posts. British Official Wireless. (Reed. 2 p.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 22. A Cairo communique states that on Saturday morning Alexandria was bombed by enemy aircraft, causing negligible damage and very few casualties. Enemy aircraft again raided Haifa on Saturday afternoon. Bombs were dropped on various quarters of the town, causing a certain amount of damage, including that to a mosque and a Moslem cemetery. Thirty-two persons were killed and IS injured, all of them Araibs. It is Obelieved that at least two enemy aeroplanes were hit by anti-aircraft fire.

On other fronts there is nothing to report.

An R.A.F. Cairo communique states that a series of reconnaissance flights were carried out by the R.A.F. on Saturday over enemy territory in the western desert. Valuable information was obtained at Sidi Barrani.

R.A.F. bombers raided an aerodrome and troop ]>ositions. Bombs burst among the aerodrome buildings close to a group of three enemy fighters. Direct hits were registered on a supply dump. All the R.A.F. aircraft returned safely.

In East Africa, South African Air Force aircraft attacked Birkao. Buildings were bombed and a several fires started. A small factory was damaged. Seventy per cent of the buildings are gutted.

R.A.F. bombers operating f.'om Sudan raided Tessenei aerodrome. One enemy aircraft, a Caproni 133, was badly damaged by a near miss. An enemy bomber which attempted to raid Aden on Saturday was driven off and another treated in a similar fashion shortly afterwards. No damage w*e done.