SMASHING ATTACKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1940, Page 5

SMASHING ATTACKS

CONTINUED BY ROYAL AIR FORCE HAVOC WROUGHT IN REICH & OTHER AREAS. NAZI BOMBER SHOT DOWN IN SCOTLAND. ' Aircraft parks, aerodromes, aircraft factories and other military objectives were bombed by the R.A.F. in Germany, Holland and Northern France on Monday night, Daventry reports. Two British machines are missing. Coastal Command aircraft attacked docks, petrol stores, enemy concentrations and dock basins in Holland and elsewhere, including shipping in Dunkirk harbour. A German bomber was shot down by fighters in north-east Scotland. There were a few German air raids during the night, but every little damage was done. WHOLESALE DAMAGE HAMBURG PORT IN RUINS. TURKISH TRAVELLER’S REPORT. LONDON. July 23. The havoc being caused by the Royal Air Force raids over Germany was being kept as closely guarded a secret by the Nazis as possible, said a Turkish traveller who has just returned to Istanbul. He visited Hamburg. Bremen. Dusseldorf, Hanover. Cologne, and Essen, and remarked that there was hardly a factory which had not been damaged. Hamgurg port was in ruins. It was clear from what he had seen that only military objectives had been attacked. People were being evacuated from these towns, and the Nazi authorities were doing everything possible to prevent the news of the effects of the raids from spreading to .other parts of the country. As a result, even Berlin did not know much about them.