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ENEMY FACTORIES RHINELAND AREA HEAVY RA.F. RAIDS ' .f FRENCH COAST HAMMERED LONDON, Sept. 10. (Received Sept. 10, at 11 p.m.) Reports state that the German armament industries in the Rhineland have been so badly hit as the result of British raids that they are being transported , tcP Czechoslovakia. Reports from Berlin state that the city had a 33-minute air raid alarm last night, and a number of flares were dropped on the outskirts. and Swinemunde, a strongly-fortified city at the mouth of the Oder River, were attacked. A hint that the Germans must expect more intensified raids were given by the German radio which announced that the people would have to put up with shorter radio programmes in future. It was announced that this restriction was a military necessity, but that it was not possible to make any further explanation at the present time. The enemy shelled Dover last evening. At dusk the R.A.F. hammered the German gun emplacements on the French coast. The concussion of bombs falling on the gun positions shook the ground on the British side of the Channel. It was one of the most violent raids against the German-held Channel ports.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24400, 11 September 1940, Page 7
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