OIL TARGETS RAIDED

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 237, 4 July 1944, Page 5

OIL TARGETS RAIDED

Budapest’s Fourth Attack In Week (Received July 3, 7 p.m.) LONDON, July 2. Upward of 759 Fortresses and Liberators today attacked railway yards at Rakos, on the north-cast edge of Budapest, capital of Hungary, also the Vcoses airfield, 10 miles from the city and an oil refinery at Kolmaz, says Reuter's correspondent at'Allied headquarters in Italy. Other targets were industrial plants at G.vor, Almazfuzito refinery, 30 miles west of Budapest, and the railway bridge at Szulok, also the railway yards • at Brod, on the Zagreb-Belgrade line. It was the fourth attack on Budapest in eiglit days. Berlin radio claimed that 38 of the raiders were destroyed. Fighters of the Second Tactical Air Force operating from landing strips in Normandy, last evening destroyed 21 enemy planes. Flying-Bomb Sites Blasted. From Britain, medium forces of American Fortresses and Liberators, escorted by Mustangs, attacked flying-bomb installations in the Pas de Calais area today. There was cloud over the targets, and bombing was done by means of instruments. One of the American bombers was lost. Lancasters covered by Spitfires later in the day made another attack on flyingbomb installations. Defensive measures against flyingbombs have had further successes in the past 24 hours. Numbers of flying-bombs have been shot,down by fighters under the command of the Air Defence of Great Britain and by ground forces. There was flying-bomb activity early yesterday over southern England. Damage and casualties are reported. An elderly couple who were buried to their necks in debris were further threatened when tire broke out m the house. Rescuers hud to. race the flames, but extricated them in time.'Numbei’s were trapped in wrecked houses and it is feared that some were killed, including children. Other residents had lucky escapes when their houses were partially destroyed. Ordinary planes are believed to have accompanied flying-bombs over southern England tonight. A few minutes after flying-bombs exploded in one district the sound of aeroplane engines was heard, followed soon afterward by four explosions.