TWO RAIDS BY BRITISH

Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1940, Page 7

TWO RAIDS BY BRITISH

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.

WIDESPREAD ATTACKS

Rec. 11.30 p.m. London, Sept. 29. gERLIN people spent another night in air raid shelters but there has been no official statement of what the British bombers achieved except that they got there despite bad weather. There were two alarms, one lasting two hours and the other a shorter one, according to the German news agency, which says that the raiders were turned back by anti-aircraft fire before they could drop their bombs, but there may be a different version when the Air Ministry report is issued. The agency adds that districts in the Ruhr and Rhineland were also raided, which is more than probable. It is known in England that the Royal Air Force again attacked invasion ports. Terrific explosions shook the Kent coast when the Royal Air Force delivered what is believed to have been the most violent of all attacks on German invasion ports. Vivid orange and red flashes and sheets of flame lit up the sky as hundreds of bombs burst in unbroken line down the Franco-Belgian coast. The flashes were bigger than anything seen before from England, indicating that more powerful bombs were being used. Houses on the coast shuddered continually for hours. A heavj barage was put up but it did not stop the British bombers. Dr. Goebbels admitted the effect of British raids when he told the Hitler youth that the attacks frequently made it impossible to carry on the work of the organisation. Central London was left fairly well alone last night, most German attacks being on the suburbs and on towns in the home counties which apparently received the bombardment meant for London. Merseyside had the worst raids of the night elsewhere, but even those were less severe than they have been of late.