STILL HITTING HARD

Evening Star, Issue 23693, 28 September 1940, Page 11

STILL HITTING HARD

ROYAL AIR FORCE OFFENSIVES KIEL AND CHANNEL FORTS VISITED BOMBS STRADDLE DCRTMUND-EMS CANAL AQUEDUCT (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, September 27. (Received September 28, at 12.30 p.m.)l An Air Ministry communique statca v that the R.A.F. last night made further heavy attacks on the Channel ports, including Ostend, Calais. Boulogne, and Le Havre, where particularly heavy damage w r as observed. Kiel and other military objectives in northwest Germany were successfully bombed. One of our aircraft is missing. During Thursday night’s (R.A.F. raid on Kiel a large vessel at anchor, it is believed, received a direct hit. One pilot reported leaving a colossal red and orange fire on the east side of the harbour basin. A large fire was also started on the west side and another vessel was presumed to have been hit.Along the Dortmund-Ems Canal bombs were seen to straddle the new aqueduct. A salvo of high explosives filled the lock gates. RUDE AWAKENING FOR GERMANY. American newspapers, commenting on the R.A.F. raids, state that Dr Goebbels’s prestige has been bombed iusfi as much as any aggregate of military abjectives in Germany. The British raids are not according to the script and they must have had an abrupt effect on the German people. It must be a shock to them to find that bombing is a thing at which two can play, A message from Berlin says it has been decreed that the schools will not open on mornings, after raids lasting after midnight. The time lost is to ba made up in the afternoons. The public has been ordercl not to/ visit the bombed areas.

The theatres are opening at 6.30 p.m., an hour earlier than usual.