HOLIDAY-MAKERS AS OBJECTIVES

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 263, 5 August 1942, Page 5

HOLIDAY-MAKERS AS OBJECTIVES

German Nuisance Raids

ATTEMPTS TO BURN DOWN RIPENING CROPS

(Received: August 4, 11.30 p.m.)

LONDON, August 4.

Tip-and-run. raids in half a dozen, areas in Britain have left little doubt, says the “Daily Mail” that holidaymakers were the “objectives.”

Bombs near one railway station damaged a crowded train and trapped passengers, necessitating doors being forced and windows broken for their release. The driver and fireman and two sailors were injured.

Two persons standing on the 'platform were killed and 50 people were treated in (hospital and first-aid posts. The "Daily Express” says that the Germans in their most scattered raids on Britain recently showered incendiaries instead of high explosives. They were trying to fire ripening corn. R.A.F. fighters were out in offensive patrols over the Low Countries yesterday. Their targets included freight trains, a German camp, gunposts and three large barges off the Dutch coast.

DUSSELDORF AND SAARBRUCKEN

Widespread Destruction (British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, August 3. Daylight photographs of Dusseldorf show the extensive damage done on the night of July 31. Many fires were burning when the photographs were taken some twelve hours after the attack. A great deal of the damage was in the predominantly industrial areas, and the proportion of factories hit by high-explosive bombs or gutted by incendiaries is high. Not all the damaged factories have yet been identified. An area of about 12 acres of docks has been completely devastated, and an analysis of industrial damage here has not yet been made. Some of the heaviest damage was to buildings along the main streets in the southern part of the town. Many warehouses in the dock area, particularly in Handelshafen and Holzhafen, have been destroyed. Saarbrucken, which was attacked on the night of July 29, has also been photographed by day, and the severe damage there has been revealed. Fart of the Erhard t Schnier engineering works has been destroyed. Five large sheds and adjoining small buildings in the Eich Dudelinger Burbachcr iron works are seriously damaged. About half of the buildings, of the main goods station are destroyed, and several railway sheds near the main passenger station are severely damaged. Several buildings of the cement works have been destroyed. Business premises and houses over a large area are devastated. . , A German communique admits that tlie Luftwaffe, between July 23 and August 2, lost 78 planes in operations against England. Tins is 37 more than the Air Ministry claimed lor the period. Raiders at midday swooped out of the clouds and bombed a coastal town in the north-east of England. They did considerable damage to business houses and property. A single raider over a north Midlands town dropped high-explosive and incendiary bombs from a low level on a town which is holding a “holidays at home” week.