PLACES IN THE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 161, 7 June 1940, Page 7

PLACES IN THE NEWS.

WHERE AIR ARM STRUCK. Ulm, one of the cities bombed by the Royal Air Eorce, is on the Danube and 58 miles south-east Stuttgart and 63 north-west of Munich. Its population is over 60,000. It is at Ulm that the Danube becomes navigable, and the city is, therefore, important as a terminal river port. Erom another angle, water 'communication is available with the Rhine. Weaving and iron and brass founding are carried on in peace-time. Homburg, another city bombed, is also a place (of about 16,000 persons) carrying on iron-founding under normal conditions, but which, under the present situation, would divert much' of this activity to military ends. It stands in Prussia and is 12 miles by rail from Frankfort-on-Main-.

Augsburg, a town of 177,000 inhabitants, lies between the rivers Wereich and Lech. It is the chief textile town of Southern Germany, producing woollen goods and also has dye works. It is also noted for its importance in the machinery and chemical trade. Rouen (about 115,000 persons), to which the Germans paid a visit, is 87 miles north-west of Paris by rail. Spinning and dyeing, ship-building, petrol-refining and’ the manufacture of chemicals are carried'on. There are docks of several kinds, and the Seine River is tidal to beyond the city, while the docks can take ships drawing 25ft of water.