BRITISH BOMBERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1940, Page 5

BRITISH BOMBERS

SUSTAINED & SUCCESSFUL ATTACKS ON MANY ENEMY TARGETS. IN COASTAL AND INLAND AREAS. The R.A.F. has carried out further widespread attacks on enemy objectives in Germany, Holland and Belgium, including docks, factories, lines of communication, concentrations of barges and fourteen aerodromes, Daventry reports. A German fighter was shot down by the British planes on their way home. One British plane is miss- t ing.

INCREASING DISMAY IN RHINELAND TERRITORY. TRAFFIC IN SOME AREAS AT A STANDSTILL. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) ANKARA, July 13. Travellers from Germany report that traffic in some parts of the Rhineland has virtually been brought to a standstill by Royal Air Force raids, and the population are increasingly dismayed by the discovery of their vulnerability. Y A recent order issued by the Ges- ' tapo forbidding Germans to disclose the results of British raids by telephone or post, is having the opposite effect to that intended, since whispered reports tend to become exaggerated. A London message reports that the Duke of Sutherland, in a speech at the annual meeting of the Empire Air. League, said: “Our air attacks on the enemy soft spots are doing more to protect Britain than all the passive defence. Many of us know that this bombing is having the greatest effect on the morale of the German public, apart from all damage to factories.” ATTACKS DRIVEN HOME IN SPITE OF HEAVY GERMAN FIRE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.0 a.m.) RUGBY, July 14. While the R.A.F. raided Emden and Kiel on Friday night, the ground defences were very active, particularly over the enemy coast. Over Emden, too, anti-aircraft fire was intense. Visibility was excellent, however, and there was no difficulty in locating the objectives at Emden, where petroleum sheds, factory buildings and docks were heavily bombed. About twenty tons of heavy bombs were spaced over the target area and many fires and explosions were observed. WIDESPREAD DAMAGE IN GERMANY AND HOLLAND. (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 14. An Air Ministry communique states: “R.A.F. bombers attacked docks in five ports, two aircraft factories, two oil refineries, three supply factories and three goods yards in Germany, and

fourteen aerodromes, also ammunition dumps and concentrations of barges in Germany and Holland yesterday and last night. "It is officially stated that six enemy planes were shot down in the Straits of Dover this evening. One R.A.F. fighter was lost.