JAPAN BOMBED

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 223, 17 June 1944, Page 7

JAPAN BOMBED

New Developments In Air War PILOTLESS RAIDS ON ENGLAND ‘Received June 16, 11.35 p.m.) LONDON, June 16. Within a few hours of each other two new developments m the aerial war have been reported. One is the news of th Allied land-based raid on Japan, made from Chma by Amen an super-Fortresses in their initial operation. The second is news or bombing raids on Britain by pilotless German aircraft. The appearance of pilotless raiders over Ungland was disHome Secretary, Mr. Herbert Mornsom They were first used'in th. raid o„ Tuesday mortt.ng °a-'opPmg bomb over a wide area but causing few casualties and not much da ™ a J Further raids were made last night and this morning °n south England. Last night’s attack was on a b.gger scale. Particulars of the result have not yet been reported. . , Mr. Morrison said that counter-measures have already been annlied and will be pressed with full vigour. . . P Exaggerated importance should not be given to this developmentltnistreclneedytha't Mr. Churchill warned Britons last February about enemy preparations for new means of attack on Britain. Details of the targets in Japan have not yet been givenq bu the U.S. War Department says that the planes came from bases somewhere in the China-Burma theatre.