ARMIES IN BELGIUM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 May 1940, Page 5

ARMIES IN BELGIUM

SECOND VISIT BY GENERAL WEYGAND SOME DETAILS OF ENEMY AIR LOSSES. GERMANS CLAIM CAPTURE OF LENS & BETHUNE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON. May 27. It is reported that the Allied Com-mander-in-Chicf, General Weygand, again flew over the German lines yesterday on a visit to the Allied northern army command. The British Air Ministry announces that R.A.F. heavy bombers throughout last night continued the attacks on enemy communications and also enemy aerodromes in Belgium and Holland without loss to themselves.

Paris reports that four French squadrons comprising 36 planes have brought down 124 German machines since the cutbreak of the present offensive. One captain has shot down 12 enemy planes in the past fortnight. The German official news agency claims that Lens and Bethune have been captured. BRITISH BOMBING ON AND BEHIND ENEMY LINES. DAMAGE DONE AT MANY POINTS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) RUGBY, May 27. The Ajr Ministry announced last night that bomber aircraft of the R.A.F. attacked aerodromes in the hands of the enemy, including those of Flushing, Brussels, and Antwerp. Operations were also continued against the enemy’s lines of communication in Belgium and western Germany. Hits were made on railway junctions, sidings, convoys and armoured vehicles. An anti-aircraft battery was put out of action.

Later in the evening much damage was done by medium bombers to a concentration of enemy mechanised vehicles near Boulogne. Today's bombing operations have been carried out against various objectives in Flanders. So far all the aircraft have returned safely. Preliminary reports show that 28 enemy aircraft have been destroyed or seriously damaged by our fighters today. One patrol of Defiants shot down five enemy bombers. Five of our fighters are reported missing.