R.A.F. Bombers Batter French Railway Targets

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 55, 8 March 1944, Page 5

R.A.F. Bombers Batter French Railway Targets

GERMAN RADIOS’ WARNING OF MORE RAIDS Received Wednesday, 12.15 a.m. LONDON, March 7. R.A.F. Bomber Command planes last night heavily attacked railway targets at Trappes, about 15 miles southwest of Paris, states an Air Ministry communique. The first reports indicate that the bombing was accurate and well concentrated. Mosquitoes attacked objectives in Northwest Germany. None is missing. The German air raid warning radio stations early to-day reported that Allied planes were over Western Germany and the Rhine area. Radio stations over wide areas in France, Germany, Belgium and Holland were off the air for periods of from one to four hours. The Prankfurt radio broadcast urgent raid warnings, declaring that raiders were circling the city. The Hanover radio broke into the news bulletin detailing the daylight air battle over Berlin yesterday to announce that enemy raiders were flying into its warning area. Reuter’s Stockholm correspondent says eyewitnesses of the American raid on Berlin who have arrived in Sweden, report that tho northern and eastern parts of the city were very heavily hit. Several great fires were visible from the Tempelhof aerodrome.