LOW SWOOP DURING DAYLIGHT

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 23, 22 October 1942, Page 5

LOW SWOOP DURING DAYLIGHT

Centre Of Bremen R.A.F. ATTENTION TO NORTH SEA COAST (British Official Wireless.) (Received October 21, 7 p.m.) RUGBY, October 20. This afternoon Mosquito light bombers of/tlie Bomber Command, flying singly, attacked objectives in north-west Germany, near Hanover and Wilhelmshaven, and also at Bremen, where bombs dropped from a low level were seen to burst in the centre of the city. One of our aircraft is missing. The daylight sweeps over Holland last week by -'Mustangs of the Army Co-operation Command resulted in the destruction of 19 railway engines, seven tugs, and numerous trucks destroyed or damaged. A military car was also attacked, and it burst into.flames and ran off the road.

The primary object of these operations, says the Air Ministry news service, was to destroy or interfere with the enemy communications. Before the pilots took off they were warned to take the greatest possible care to ensure that the civilian population did not suffer from the attacks. The sight of the R.A.F. evidently had a heartening effect on the oppressed people, many of whom stopped their work in the field to wave encouragement. Some of the pilots, travelling at tree-top level, waved back. The 8.8. C. in a recent broadcast to the people of Holland urged all to curtail train travelling, and, if they bad to travel to use the carriages at the encl of the train. The aim was to spare Dutch lives during the R.A.F. campaign against enemy communications. According to a Swiss report published yesterday, the Germans have ordered the inhabi-, tants of the whole Dutch coastal area to be prepared for evacuation. * DANISH TROOPS TO LEAVE JUTLAND LONDON, October 20. The Stockholm correspondent of the “Daily Mail” says that the German authorities have ordered all Danish troops to be withdrawn from the Jutland Peninsula by the middle of November.