R.A.F. ATTACKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1940, Page 6

R.A.F. ATTACKS

NAZI FACTORIES & BASES WELL BOMBED MANY FIRES STARTED. DETAILS OF EXTENSIVE DAMAGE. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, July 14. The Royal Air Force attack on the Bremen naval shipbuilding yards and the Fockewulf aircraft factory lasted for over an hour. Numbers of highexplosive bombs and incendiary bombs hit dock buildings and railways near jetties. One of the Fockewulf buildings was set on fire. Bombs burst in the factory's test aerodrome and in chemical plants. Among other factories bombed over a wide area, direct hits were scored on an airframe factory at Deichshausen, near Bremen. Mineral oil works at Monheim were left on fire. after several hits. A particularly vivid explosion was seen after a bomb exploded on a munition works at Leverkusen, northward from Cologne, The R.A.F. visited metal works and the Grevenbrotch explosive factories at Hamburg. An attack lasting for ninety minutes was delivered on railway sidings at Soest. Nine separate fires were started. The damage was so great that the pilot of a succeeding plane decided that nothing worth while was left. Accordingly he flew on to Lippstadt and unloaded his high explosives on the railway junction. The attacks on land, sea and air bases were among the most extensive yet carried out. The naval barracks at Rugen Island a seaplane base at Borkum were among the objectives sprayed with bombs of various kinds.