Late War News SKY-RAIDERS OUT AGAIN

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 196, 17 May 1944, Page 8

Late War News SKY-RAIDERS OUT AGAIN

Luftwaffe Operation NAZIS REPORT GREAT ALLIED ACTIVITY Assembling Of Ships (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received May 17. 1.20 a.m.) LONDON, May 16. "Ships are assembling at. Bristol and other English ports for the Allied invasion, the preparations for which are complete,” states a Berlin report. Reconnaissance over southern England had revealed intense activity, said a Luftwaffe spokesman. There were large concentrations of ships and barges in Bristol harbour. German spy raiders were again over the south-coast of England last night on a scale comparable with the previous night’s activity. Bombs were dropped, on five south coast towns, at one ot which a number of persons were killed, and a hospital was damaged. At least five of the raiders were shot down.

The Press Association's aviation correspondent says that though there was a noticeable attempt at concentrated bombing over one coastal area the other planes dispersed over a much wider area, suggesting what the Germans.describe as a pre-invasion probe. The German news agency says that strong formations of German heavy bombers for 25 minutes last night attacked a most important target in Portsmouth harbour. Great quantities of high explosives and incendiaries were dropped. “The German home front in the last week was optimistic,” says the London “Daily Telegraph” correspondent in Stockholm, “but this week it has had a severe relapse. This is the effect .of the announcements that an invasion is now a certainty.”