IMPORTANT TARGET

Evening Star, Issue 24286, 29 August 1942, Page 5

IMPORTANT TARGET

RAF. RAID ON KASSEL DAYLIGHT SWEEPS" OVER FRANCE (British Official Wireless.; (llec. 1 p.m.) RUGBY,.. August 28. .Oast night a strong lorce or Xt.A.F. bombers attacked Kassel, and reports inuicute tnat the attack was concentrated and effective. Thirty of our bombers are missing. KasseL which is some 8U maos east of the (Ruhr, is an important manufacturing centre. The principal factories are the ilenscnei Locomotive Works—the largest in Kuropo—Henschei Aircraft JMigine Works, which produce Daimler and Benz engines, ana tne 1? ieseier Aircrart Works, wtnen are producing Aicssersuinmtt fighters. Further accounts of the raid on Kassel tell how many of the aircraft at-* tacked from s,oud feet and some from 1,5110 feet. The pilot of a Wejlmgton which came in near the end of the attack saw three fires, each about an acre in extent, and after he had dropped his bombs more fires were seen.

At the present stage of the war Kassel, with 218,000 inhabitants, is of great importance to Germany. With the moon so bright and visibility good, it was expected that the German night fighters would be out in strength, and there were many combats and many stories of how our bombers drove the enemy off. Heavy bombers which attacked Gdynia had a journey of nearly 1,800 miles there and back. They found clouds over the port, but were persistent in their attack, one making 12 runs over the target 1 before dropping his bombs.

Widespread daylight sweeps over Northern France are announced •by headquarters in the European theatre of operations by the United States army and by the Air Ministry. The report states: “This afternoon Flying Fortresses (B 17’s) of the United States Army Air Force, escorted by Spitfire squadrons of the R.A.F. and Dominion and Allied forces, bombed an air-frame factory at Meaulte, near Albert. Many other squadrons of fighters, including Spitfires, carried out sweeps over St. Omer. All the Fortresses returned safely. One fighter of the IR.C.A.F. is missing. One enemy fighter was destroyed.” In brilliant moonlight early this morning Hurricane _ bombers attacked enemy merchant shipping in a convoy south of Guernsey. Two ships were left on fire and seriously damaged. Both were listing. During the night intruder aircraft of the Fighter Command shot up a goods train in Occupied France and damaged at least eight locomotives. Other intruders attached an airfield, a factory, and huts in the camp area.

“AN OLD FRIEND”

AMERICA WELCOMES MR’FRASER

((Rec. 12.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 28. ■ Under the heading ‘A Visitor from New Zealand,’ the ‘ New York Times,’ in a leading article, says; “Mr Fraser is an old friend, and there is nothing more to say except that Americans like him and his countrymen even more than they did before.” The paper then gives an extensive and laudatory description of New Zealand, which it says is doing its utmost to keep democracy from extinction.

While he was posing for photographs Mr Fraser’s nose . suddenly began to bleed. Quickly he commented: “ I can hear it in Berlin and Tokio now: ‘ New Zealand’s Prime Minister gets hostile reception at White House.’ ”

POWERFUL SHIP

LAUNCHING OF U.B. lOWA

NEW YORK, August 27. The lowa, of 45,000 tons, the mightiest United States battleship yet built, was launched at Brooklyn navy yard. Thirty thousand people attended the ceremony, while a further 10,000 watched from the Manhattan side. The Assistant .Secretary for the Navy, Mr Ralph Bard, said the Japanese and the Germans built stealthily and well, but he could guarantee that they never fashioned such a weapon as the lowa. “ This is no mere shijr,” he said. “It is a tool with which America’s future will be written on history pages.” The lowa is SBO feet long and has a main battery of 16in guns. It is claimed that she will fire faster and further than any other ship afloat. CARIBBEAN SINKINGS

THREE MORE VISTIMS

WASHINGTON, August 27. Three ships were torpedoed and sunk, two within a 'space of four minutes, one night in the Caribbean Sea in the first large-scale assault since June, when convoying was introduced. They included a medium-sized United States merchant vessel. It is believed that two submarines attacked two of the vessels, which were travelling closely together. A radio operator explained that the submarines have changed their tactics. They now lie in wait for passing vessels, spring up and make a quick attack, and then retire.

GERMAN RADIOS

HU SHfIRT-WAVE RECEPTION

LONDON, August 27. The official organisation of German wireless manufacturers, membership of which is compulsory, has issued an order limiting the manufacture of radio receivers to a single type which will be unable to pick up short wave transmissions. The ‘ Daily Telegraph ’ says the object is to stop people from listening to Allied short wave broadcasters.

Simultaneously a so-called European convention was passed limiting wireless components to fixed designs. The convention binds all manufacturers in occupied countries. The Gwtaau wireless industry is fully occupied with service orders and receivers for the public are made mostly in France and Holland.

ROUND-UP OF ALIENS

MANY ARRESTS IN UNITED STATES

(Rec. 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 28. In the largest round-up so far on the east coast the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested 100 German aliens, including the president of the war veterans, who received a medal from Hitler in 1936. and also several members of the Nazi Party.