BOLD ATTACKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1940, Page 5

BOLD ATTACKS

ON GERMAN NAVAL BASES AND MANY OTHER MILITARY OBJECTIVES. CEASELESS WORK OF BRITISH BOMBERS. An Air Ministry communique transmitted by Daventry states that bombers of the R.A.F. attacked German naval bases at Wilhelmshaven and at the Kiel Canal. In other areas attacks were made on lines of communication, aerodromes, and aircraft factories. Hits were observed on all objectives. One British machine is missing. On Thursday British bombers made daylight attacks on oil refineries in German areas, where large fires were started. The airports at Amsterdam and Brussels were also bombed and fires started. One machine is missing. Planes of the Coastal Command attacked and damaged enemy patrol vessels off the coast of Holland. Two British machines failed to return. A large German ship, one of a group of four, was hit by a British bomber off the Dutch coast during a series of daylight raids on Thursday. Aircraft of the Coastal Command have recently successfully attacked five U-boats. NAZI THREAT “HOUR FOR RETALIATION COMING. RAID ON RESIDENTIAL AREA ALLEGED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, July 4. The German news .agency, after alleging that 40 civilians were killed or wounded in a British air raid on the Hamburg residential area, declares that the hour for retaliation is rapidly approaching. The casualties are reported to include 12 children, a man, and three women, who were killed. The official German news agency states that 16 persons were killed and 25 injured during an R.A.F. raid on a suburb of Hamburg. It also declares that 10,000 bombs have been dropped in Germany since the outbreak of the war, killing 448 persons and injuring 1042.