COLOGNE RAIDED

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 19, 17 October 1942, Page 7

COLOGNE RAIDED

18 R.A.F. Bombers Missing TARGETS IN HOLLAND (By Telegraph.— Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, October .16. A strong force of R.A.F. bombers* was over the Rhineland last night, and Cologne, second city of the Reich, was one of the targets. Eighteen bombers are missing. It was Hie .110111 raid on Cologne, which has a population of some 768.000 -—or did have before the R.A.F.’s first 1000-bomber raid in May. Britaijti had a raid-free night. An Air Ministry communique states: “On Wednesday afternoon Mustangs of tile Army Co-operation Command on an offensive patrol attacked barges, a goods train, and railway engines in Holland. Three small vessels on the coast were hit and damaged. None of our aircraft is missing.” Slight damage was caused by can-non-lire from an enemy fighter at a place on the south-west coast of England yesterday. No bombs were dropped and there were no casualties. Ten thousand Axis aircraft have been brought down during the war. :<ot counting the heavy enemy losses in' Russia, the Far East, anti the Pacific. This figure is given by the English magazine “Aeroplane,” which pays a tribute to the United States air forces. Referring to the heavy toll of German figliters taken by Flying Fortresses and Liberator bombers in the recent raid on Lille, the paper says that the United States machines are winning their successes with a weapon the R.A.F. never possessed—the •.5 machinegun. The R.A.F. is equipped only with .303 machineguns and 20-millimetre cannon.