MOST EXTENSIVE RAIDS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 245, 13 September 1940, Page 7

MOST EXTENSIVE RAIDS

OFFENSIVE ON GERMANY

AIRCRAFT ATTACK CONVOYS (United Press Association, —Copyright.—Rec. 10 a.m.) (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 12. Perhaps the most widespread attack of the war so far on military objectives in Germany and German-occupied territory was carried out last night by the R.A.F. An Air Ministry communique states: Coastal Command aircraft yesterday attacked an enemy convoy off Dunkirk, sinking one enemy supply ship. Another force of Coastal Command aircraft operating with the Fleet Air Arm attacked a convoy off Cape Gris Nez, hitting one enemy supply ship, which was left burning, and seriously damaging another. In the course of this attack our aircraft encountered a force of enemy fighters and bombers, three of which were destroyed and others damaged. Three of our aircraft were lost.

BERLIN AGAIN STRUCK. Last night strong forces of bomber aircraft carried out attacks on railway stations’,' goods yards and an aerodrome at Berlin, the docks and shipyards at Hamburg, Bremen and Willielmshaven, an oil plant at Monheim, an explosives factory at Frankfurt, the goods yards at Hamm, Cologne, Coblenz, Mannheim and Ehrang, the railway junction at Namur (Belgium) and enemy aerodromes in Germany and Holland. Other forces of bombers attacked barge concentrations, docks and shipping at Ostend, Flushing, Calais and Boulogne. Three of our aircraft did not return. CZECHS PARTICIPATE. The Air Ministry News Service states that the Czech bomber squadron formed in England raided enemy territory for the first time when it participated in a successful attack on the railway goods yards at Brussels. The Rome radio states that the R.A F. raid on Berlin on Tuesday night resulted in 1753 casualties. BIG RAID ON BERLIN.

It is officially stated that bombers again carried out a big raid on Berlin last night, straddling the Potsdam station with lieavy-calihre bombs, followed by incendiaries. The bombers bit buildings and tracks at Anlialter, near Potsdam, in a series of runs over the target.

Repeated salvoes struck the goods yards at both stations, and bombs fell in the Tiergarten and the Templehof aerodrome. One of our planes was damaged., but all returned. , Our planes also machine-gunned motor torpedo-boats from low altitudes. The radio has announced that British bombers have attacked worldfamous monuments and symbols of modern Germany. Other cities in addition to Berlin, Hamburg, and Bremen have suffered damage.