TRAIL OF HAVOC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 251, 20 September 1940, Page 8

TRAIL OF HAVOC.

IN ENEMY PORTS

(British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 1-20 p.m.) RUGBY, bepf 19While the main attack on Le Havre was in progress, other sections of Wednesday night’s large raiding lorce were ranging the French, Dutch and Bel gian coast lilies, bombarding the tnt a . sion bases at Boulogne, Calais, Dieppe, Dunkirk. Zeebrugge, Ostend, hlushing and Antwerp. At Boulogne low cloud hampered the attackers, and several raiders cruised for ovtu an horn in the vicinity of the targets awaiting a break in the clouds and a favourable

opportunity to attack. Sticks of bombs were then dropped across the dock from the Loubet Basin to the tidal harbour.

An electric power house is believed to have been struck at Dieppe, where a violent explosion and a blueish green flash followed the bursting of a salvo of bombs.

■■ During the raid on Ostend one of the attacking aircraft, flying at 1500 ft, was turned over on its back by the blast of the great explosion which followed the bursting of a bomb. The docks at Flushing were subjected to 20 minutes’ intense bombardment, Many bursts were seen on the target area and on the dockside buildings, and explosions broke out on the quaysides. Among the several extensive fires started by the raiders one could be seen for a quarter of an hour after leaving the docks. Among other objectives attacked was the big railway yard at Brussels, where fires broke out'and caused explosions which continued for twenty minutes. The long-range gun emplacements at Cape Gris Nez were again bombed, find after a low-level attack by one bomber the crew observed quantities of material being flung into the air and a few minutes later, several miles out to sea, the same crew saw the flash of a great explosion.