BOMBERS AT WORK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 July 1940, Page 6

BOMBERS AT WORK

BRITISH OFFENSIVE WELL MAINTAINED ENEMY DEFENCES AND DEPOTS ATTACKED. SOME RAIDS ON SCOTLAND AND WALES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) RUGBY, July 19. An Air Ministry evening communique states: “Yesterday our bomber aircraft made daylight attacks on barge concentrations near Rotterdam, on Bologne harbour and on warehouses at Le Havre. The aerodrome at St Omer was also attacked. Three of our aircraft are missing. “During the night, Coastal Command aircraft bombed the naval base at Emden, the harbours at Harlingen and Willemsoord and a supply depot at Ghent. All these aircraft returned safely. “Aircraft of the Bomber Command attacked aircraft factories and depots at Bremen, Diepholz, Paderborn and Rotenburg, in Thuringia. Oil depots at Bremen and Hanover, munition factories at Essen, goods yards at Hamm, an aerodrome at Eschwege and ammunition trains in the vicinity of Soltau were also bombed. One of our aircraft is missing. “There was some enemy air activity over Scotland and Wales and at one point in South-East England today. In one Scottish town a building was demolished and some others were damaged. Some casualties occurred, fortunately few injuries proving fatal. Minor casualties occurred when some bombs were dropped' in South Wales.” LARGE BUILDING HIT SEVERAL PERSONS KILLED. (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, July 19. An enemy raider this morning bombed a town in South-West Scotland and hit a large building. Several persons were killed and many injured. A British fighter chased and shot down the bomber. Air activity increased during the day. Six German dive-bombers dropped about thirty bombs in the vicinity of a South-Eastern town and made off quickly when a terrific anti-aircraft barrage opened up. One bomb, during an earlier SouthEastern raid, fell in the middle of a row of houses. A.R.P. squads are endeavouring to release a number of persons buried in debris.