NAZIS TERRORISE CIVILIANS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 140, 14 May 1940, Page 8

NAZIS TERRORISE CIVILIANS

ALLIED PILOTS TRIUMPH #

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph. Copyright.) LONDON, May 12, Violent air activity during the week-end over Belgium, France and Holland provided the ‘occasion for thrilling Allied actions and heroic exploits. * -A,*.young Australian pilot summed up the B.A.F. fighters’, work when lie remarked: “We are mowing them down.” :■ > V'.Vv ; ;• V - One pilot alone accounted for four enemy machines. Another pilot said: “We (livetUin among 50 ’planes and shot them up as rapidly as possible;.” ; ,

NAZI TROOPS ASSAILED. Blenheim bombers • have wrought great havoc on troop concentrations behind the German lines in .Belgium'. Immediately alter the British released their bombs over 30 Messcrsclunitta swooped down from the clouds, but the Blenheims, despite the heavy odds, pressed home the attack. The Germans arc using, the air weapon to terrorise civilian populations, the worst examples of frightfulness being the reported bombing of two trains full of women and children on route to Brussels from Liege. German aircraft also flew over a Belgian town, machine-gunning the streets. Elsewhere three private cars containing refugees were riddled with bullets. Nine bombs fell on working-class homes in a Belgian town and many bombs fell far from military objectives. It was estimated yesterday - that over 100 persons had been killed in the Brussels area, including many women and children. , Bombs have rendered a wliole <*|uarter in one town uninhabitable. Bombers have reduced blocks of .houses in another busy centre to dust-blown ruins. • The civilian casualties already total several hundreds. The German News' Agency denies the machine-gunning ol refugee trains.