DEADLY RAIDS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 249, 18 September 1940, Page 7

DEADLY RAIDS

ON ENEMY CENTRES,

PORTS SUFFER GREATLY

(United Press Association —Copyright.) (British Official-Wireless.)

(Rec. 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 17. Daylight raids on Calais, Ostend, Dunkirk, and Vcere were carried out yesterday. afternoon by medium bombers of the R.A.F. At Yeere, on the Dutch island of Walcheren, a concentration of barges in a canal lock were bombed from a low level.

The harbour installations at Dunkirk and Osteud were attacked under the cover of low clouds, and at Calais a salvo of bombs were seen to burst on the quayside of the outer harbour. A convoy of twelve barges and three escort vessels were intercepted and bombed off Zeebrugge. An attack was also made on three self-propelled barges patrolling off Ostend Harbour, which nove-to and opened fire on sighting the R.A.F. aircraft.

Haamstede, in the Dutch island of Schouven, was raided early in the afternoon, and bombs were dropped on the aerodrome in high-level attacks. German barge concentrations outside as well as inside the invasion ports were also harassed during a serie ; s ol daylight raids yesterday. A considerable convoy of enemy shipping off Calais was attacked, and a stick of bombs were dropped across the convoy from starboard to port. Another raider bombed barges tied up in twos and threes inside Zeebrugge Harbour, and Zeebrugge itself was attacked, and it is believed a bomb struck the light railway running along the mole.