R.A.F. ATTACK ON GENOA

Southland Times, Issue 24883, 24 October 1942, Page 5

R.A.F. ATTACK ON GENOA

Port Heavily Bombed (Rec. 1.5 a.m.) LONDON, October 23. Bombers of the Royal Ail - Force last night attacked Genoa for the seventh time since Italy entered the war. The raid is described in London as being heavy, but no details of the damage done are yet available. Not one bomber was lost. Genoa, which was last raided a year ago, is the largest port in the Mediterranean and is an important industrial centre. It is the home of the great Ausaldo works. In February last year the Royal Navy pumped 300 tons of shells into Genoa’s docks. The Italian communique states that the raid was of notable dimensions and admits that damage was done. It also states that bombs were dropped on Turin. Genoa is 700 miles from Britain. It is officially stated that on Thursday morning aircraft of the Army Cooperation Command attacked ground targets in Northern France. On Thursday afternoon Fighter Command aircraft attacked two armed trawlers off the French coast. One aircraft of the Fighter Command is missing. Hurricanes and Spitfires in these flights again attacked vital enemy communications. They flew so low in the attack on one train that they almost touched the signal poles. Another train “took evasive action” by halting between a double row of trees, but the planes came down below tree-top level to the attack. At Amiens trucks in the goods yards were shot up. ATTACKS ~ON BRITAIN German Raids In Daylight LONDON, October 22. | Three raiders bombed a south-east coast town early this morning and wrecked house and business premises. Rescue squads dug out the trapped people. There were some casualties. The raiders swooped in low from the Channel, just skimming the water, with machine-guns blazing. The first bomb strack the beach, bounded over high buildings on the promenade, and then demolished a house beyond. Other bombs directly hit buildings and littered the streets with wreckage. Two daylight raiders dived from low clouds and dropped bombs on an East Anglian village, causing a number of deaths. One raider came so low that the bombs were seen to hit a street, bounce over a low of cottages, then fall on a workmen’s housing site, where most of the casualties occurred. Nine bodies have so far been recovered, also a number of injured.