BOMBING OF BARGES

Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1940, Page 7

BOMBING OF BARGES

British Official Wireless.

I british keep pounding,

Rugby, Sept. 17. Daylight raids on Calais, Ostend, Dunkirk and Veere were carried out yester- j day afternoon by medium bombers of the j Royal Air Force. At Veere, on the Dutch ' island of Walcheren, a concentration of | barges in a canal lock was bombed from ( a low level. ' ' Harbour installations at Dunkirk and | Ostend were attacked under cover of low j clouds, and at Calais a salvo of bombs | was seen to burst on the quayside of tlie outer harbour. ! A convoy of 12 barges and three escort | vesselflHwas intercepted and bombed off j Zeebrugge. An attack was also made on j three self-propelled barges patrolling off j Ostend Harbour which hove to and j opened fire on sighting R.A.F. aircraft. , Haamstede, on the Dutch island of Schouven, was raided early in the afternoon. Bombs were dropped on the aerodrome in high level attacks. German barge concentrations outside as well -as Inside invasion ports were also | harassed during a series of daylight raids | yesterday. A considerable convoy of enemy shipping off Calais was attacked | and a stick of bombs was dropped across , a convoy from starboard to port. Another raider bombed barges tied up in , twos and threes inside Zeebrugge harbour. j Zeebrugge itself was attacked and it is j believed that a bomb struck a light railway running along the mole.