A NAVAL & LAND BASES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1940, Page 5

A NAVAL & LAND BASES

DAMAGE DONE IN GERMANY AND HOLLAND. FIRES STARTED AT CUXHAVEN AND HAMBURG. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, July 6. It is officially stated that Royal Air Force bombers attacked the German aircraft factory at Deichshausen, the railway junction at Cologne, the Dutch aerodromes at Waalhaven, Flushing, Schipol and Texel, the naval bases at Kiel and Wilhelmshaven, the docks at Cuxhaven and Hamburg. Two of these bombers and one night bomber are missing. Many bombs were dropped on a construction basin at Kiel and naval storehouses at Wilhelmshaven. Several fires were started in the docks at Cuxhaven and Hamburg. A German-controlled Dutch wireless station reports that a number of British bombing attacks were made over Holland near Haarlem. Fresh instructions were issued to enforce a more efficient blackout. THREATS OF DEATH MADE BY GERMAN COMMANDER IN HOLLAND. AMSTERDAM, July 6. The German military commander in Holland, General Christiansen, issued a communique threatening death and other severe penalties unless the Dutch change their anti-German attitude. He said that the nature of the British bombing atacks proved that the Dutch were supplying information.