CASSEL RAIDED

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 8, 5 October 1943, Page 5

CASSEL RAIDED

R.A.F. Completes Big

Week HEAVY NIGHT ATTACKS ON REICH

(By Telegraph. —Press Assn. —Copyright.) LONDON, October 4.

The big German industrial town of Cassel, 80 miles east of the Ruhr, was the main target for R.A.F. bombers last night, and the raid is officially described as heavy. With a population of 200,000, Cassel is a town of considerable importance to the German war effort. It manufactures locomotives, boilers, armoured fighting vehicles, ami lorries, and is the home of an aircraft plant manufacturing Fpeke-Wulfs. The last heavy raid on Cassel was in August last year, when the Eder dam was breached. Twenty-four R.A.F. machines are missing. , ... 'The raid completed a week of intense night, bombing over Germany bythe R.A.F., when the targets included Hanover, Bochum. Emden and Munich. As the result of dawn to dusk attacks bv Allied fighters over France, Belgium and Holland, 24 enemy pianos were destroyed for the loss of four medium bombers and 11 fighters. . There was slight enemy activity over England last night, mainly over East Anglia. One enemy plane was destroyed. There was a short alert in London for the sycond night running, but no incidents are reported. Big guns roared across the Channel last night for a considerable time, l.e British opened up first, and after 20 minutes the Germans replied, and the shelling went on for two hours without a break. Then, after an interval, it began again, the shell warning on the south coast lasting four hours.