R.A.F. SUCCESS WITHOUT LOSS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 230, 27 September 1940, Page 7

R.A.F. SUCCESS WITHOUT LOSS.

BULLS-EYES SCORED.

Trail Of Destruction In Germany. (Reed. 1 p.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 26. "All our aircraft returned to safety from extensive bombing operations over Germany and the Channel ports last night," states an Air Ministry communique. "In Berlin aircraft of the Bomber Command attacked power stations, railway communications and the Tempelhof aerodrome. At Kiel the docks were bombed, and goods yards at Osnabruck, Ehrang, Hamiii, Mannheim and Hanover were also damaged. "Shipping barges and quayside stores at Antwerp, Flushing, Ostend, Dunkirk, Calais and Boulogne were again attacked. .Aircraft of the Coastal Command shot down an enemy bomber at sea yesterday afternoon. "Last night forces of the Coastal Command bombed oil tanks At Brest. Tanks were set on fire and shipping in the harbour was also severely damaged.' The strongly defended dockyard at Kiel, in which the poeket battleship Scharnhorst is lying, was attacked last night by a force of heavy bombers. Attacks by individual aircraft were made at intervals over a period of two hours, and many direct hits were scored on targets. Sticks of heavy calibre bombs fell across the northern dockyard and one of the shipbuilding yards, and a brilliant yellow flash and one big explosion were seen very close to the Scharnhorst. At Ehrang bomt> trursts were seen in the centre of the railway yards, and one salvo was followed five minutes later by a violent explosion. Another great explosion, with a vivid blue flash, is believed to have marked a direct hit on the electrical power-house. Flames and heavy explosions in the poods yard signalled the usual nightly bombardment of Hamm, and several bi.u' fires were started in tha yard at .Mannheim. In the attack on Osnabruck many direct hits were g.-orcd on the tracks of a -roods siding, and by the light of tires started in the yard the crew of one of tho bombers saw dying debris from a fail chimney which collapsed across the t-iek.

(Reed. 1 p.m.)

Over Germany bombs were also dropped at Lubeck, on railway yards l.ear Hanover, and on the main line track at Lunen. A canal was straddled and dock gates hit in an attack on the river port of Haltern, south-west of Munster, and at Rendeburjj, to the west of Kiel, a factory was bombed and set < n fire. The Varel aerodrome and the Warnemunde seaplane base were also attacked.