ALLIED AIR ATTACKS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 161, 7 June 1940, Page 8

ALLIED AIR ATTACKS.

GERMAN TOWNS IN THE NEWS. Frankfurt-on-Main, one of the German military objectives , attacked by the French Air Force, is a large town on the right bank of tlie River Main and is 24 miles above its confluence with the Rhine. It produces machinery, rolling-stock, gutta-percha, soap, chemicals and metal-wares. It is a large inland port, there being heavy barge traffic on the river. Munich, a town of about threequarters of a million people, is the fourth largest town in the German Republic and stands on the River Isar, about mid-way between Strasbourg and Vienna. Munich is the centre of an important network of railways connecting it directly with Strasbourg (for Paris), Cologne, Leipzig, Berlin, Vienna, and Innsbruck (leading to Italy via the Brenner Pass). The chief industries are metal goods, machinery, margarine and chemicals. Munich is famous also as the birthplace of Nazism. Emmerich, a town of 14,600 people, is on tlie railway line between Cologne and Amsterdam and on the fright bank of the Rhine. It has some shipping trade and manufactures margarine, oil and sugar. It also has iron and machine factories. Deventer, an old town of Holland on the Ysel River, where a Nazi air base has been established and bombed by the R.A.F., has a population of about 30,000. Thomas a Kempis and Erasmus were educated here. Wesel, a strongly fortified town in Prussia, at the Lippe’s confluence with the Rhine, has also been mentioned in recent cablegrams as an objective for R.A.I. attack. With a population of some 28 000, Wesel is 35 miles north-west of ’ Dusseldorf and manufactures cloth, pottery and machinery.