RAID ON NORTHERN IRELAND

Evening Star, Issue 23681, 14 September 1940, Page 12

RAID ON NORTHERN IRELAND

FIRST OF THE WAR UNSUCCESSFUL ASSAULT ON SHIPPING (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 13. (Received September 14, at 10.37 a.m.) The Illinistry of Public Security in Belfast has issued the statement: A single aircraft made an unsuccessful attack on shipping elf the coast of Northern Ireland. Subsequently a small number of incendiaries were dropped on a coastal town, but the few fires that were caused were soon under control. The damage was slight and there were no casualties. This is the first time bombs are known to have been dropped over Northern Ireland. ENEMY COMMUNIQUES REPORTS FROM BERLIN AND ROME BERLIN, September 13. (Received September 14, at,12.45 p.m.) A communique states; A U-boat sank six armed merchantmen totalling 37,600 , tons, including the 7,000-tonner already ' reported destroyed. British planes flying over Germany during the night failed to reach their targets, and dropped a few bombs on residential quarters, also on a village, causing a little material damage. Armed reconnaissaurs bombed industrial plants in • ’ London, Bexhill, Brighton, and Banbury, also other places. They seriously damaged an i 8,000-ton merchantman south-westwards of the Isle of Man. Bombers attacked harbour facilities in London and Liverpool on the night of September 12, causing fresh, fires and explosions They rebombed other Bri- / tish harbours and destroyed one enemy plane. One of ours is missing. Light enemy naval forces attempted to bombard the harbour of Boulogne on the night of September 11. A Rome communique states: “An Italian submarine reached its base after sinking a 10,000-ton tanker and an 8,000-ton cargo steamer in the Atlantic. The Italian air force continued its night and day raids against enemy concentrations, motorised units, and other military objectives on the Egyptian coast, set fire to an oil depot, damaged several enemy lorries, armoured cars, tanks, and other formations, and successfully attacked ah encampment and barracks at Abidia, also a column of 20 lorries near El Chaturo, in Kenya. The enemy air raided Massawa four times on September 12, and damaged a building. The enemy also bombed Assab, destroying a hospital and some buildings in the centre of the town, causing six deaths and some wounded among the Italian ' and native populations. Other enemy air raids on Asmara and Gura caused slight damage. The bombing of aerodromes at Djimma and Chachatnana inflicted slight damage. There were nine casualties. Italian fighters ehot down one enemy plane.” SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES REPRESSIVE MEASURES IN SOUTH AFRICA CAPE TOWN, September 13. The Minister of the Interior, Mr H. ■ Lawrence, endorsing General Smuts’s warning that the Government intended to use its full powers to curb subversive activities, detailed the actions of Ossewabrandwag, an organisation formed as an Afrikaans Cultural Society. Subversive elements were appointed as guards for public utility buildings, with badges representing them as soldiers. Attempts were made to tamper with the loyalty of* the police, railway employees, and soldiers, and to obtain military information and arms. The Ossewabrandwag organisation’s “ wildmon ” were obviously getting out of hand, and General Smuts was determined to maintain internal security. AUSTRALIAN FORGES MR CHURCHILL'S TRIBUTE (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 12. Mr Churchill, acknowledging a war anniversary message from the Prime Minister of Australia, Mr R. G. Menzics, says: “ The thrilling exploits of your sailors ,in the Mediterranean scene and of your airmen around these shores give a foretaste of what the enemy may expect when all arms of the Australian forces get the chance which they are eagerly awaiting. With the aid of such men we shall go on unflinchingly until final victory is won.” * NEW ZEALAND AIRMAN MISSING * [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, September 13, Advice has been received that Pilotofficer Trevor Harold Hadley has been reported missing as the result of R.A.F. operations Pilot-officer Hadley is a son of Mr and Mrs A. H. Hadley, of Thames. Ho was bora in Masterton, and is aged 22. He was educated at Lower Hutt and ' Stratford. Later he was iengaged in farming in the Wairarapa. He was .married in Christchurch last March, shortly before leaving for England. Pilot-officer Hadley enlisted at Thames and trained at Wigram. A brother, Ronald Arnold Hadley, is a pilot in the same squadron.