BERLIN AGAIN BOMBED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 259, 30 September 1940, Page 7

BERLIN AGAIN BOMBED

CHANNEL PORTS BATTERED

R.A.F.’S TRAIL OF HAVOC

(United Press Association.—Copyright. — line. 9.3 T a. ml.)

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 29

Last night British aircraft heavily attacked the invasion ports in enemy-occupied territory and, in spite of bad weather, . some R.A.F. bombers reached Berlin. •

An Air .Ministry communique says operations were carried out last niglit by bomber forces of tbe R.A.E- over Germany and occupied Channel ports. The weather conditions generally in North' Germany were unfavourable, but numbers of aircraft reached their objectives.

Berlin and district electric power' stations and anti-aircraft gun positions were bombed.

Elsewhere in North Germany the targets included important railway centres and aerodromes. The naval base at Wilhelmshaven was strongly attacked, and fires and explosions were caused. 1 The munition works at Hanau, near Frankfurt, suffered severe damage. Along tho Channel coast I.e Havre, Fecamp, Boulogne,_ Calais, and Dunkirk were all heavily bombed, as well as the line of gun emplacements near Capo Gris Nez. The enemy baso at Lorient was again attacked. Two aircraft arc missing from these operations. , TERRIFIC ’ EXPLOSIONS.

Terrific explosions shook the coast of Kent when the Itoyal Air Force delivered what is believed to be the most _violent attacks on the German invasion ports. Vivid orange and red flashes and sheets of flame lit up the sky as hundreds of bombs burst in an unbroken line along the French and Belgian coasts. The flashes were bigger than anything previously seen from England, indicating that more powerful bombs were being used. The houses on the coast shuddered continually for hours. A Berlin message says Dr Goebbels, in a broadcast, admitted that the R.A.F. raids over Germany had paralysed the work of the Hitler Youth in some districts.