BOMBING ATTACKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1940, Page 5

BOMBING ATTACKS

ON ENEMY TERRITORY & SHIPPING NO PAUSE IN BRITISH OFFENSIVE. DAY & NIGHT OPERATIONS. An Air Ministry communique transmitted by Daventry, states that on Wednesday aircraft of the Eiomber Command carried out daylight attacks on military objectives in Germany and shipping off the Dutch and German coast. The bombers were engaged by enemy fighters, two of which were shot down. One British bomber is missing. Oil refineries near Hanover and the Dutch-German frontier were attacked by bombers on Wednesday night. Supply depots, shipping and enemy aerodromes in Holland and German were also attacked. Two British planes were lost. A Sunderland flying-boat of the Australian Air Force three times repulsed enemy attempts to attack a convoy it was escorting. An aircraft on reconnaissance on the Norwegian coast has failed to return. RAIDS ON There was some enemy air activity over Britain yesterday. An Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security communique states that a single enemy aircraft erdssed the east coast and later dropped bombs at Norwich, causing some damage to industrial establishments and casualties, some fatal. Elsewhere, two enemy aircraft were shot down. One British fighter failed to return from patrol.' During Wednesday night and yesterday morning bombs were dropped near the Thames Estuary, the Bristol Channel and in North-West England. Included in the .336 persons killed in air raids on Britain for the month beginning on June 1-8 were 42 women and seven children under 16 years. Of the 476 injured, 91 were women and 16 children.

BRITISH BOMBS POWER ADMITTED BY NAZI. LONDON, August 1. Herr von Schroder, president of. Germany’s A.R.P. Union, in an interview admitted that the British incendiary bombs had greater penetrating power than was usually presumed. Fie said he had seen one explosive bombsplinter the size of his fist pass through a heavy oak door and two walls of a safe. BAD WEATHER HINDRANCE TO BRITISH ACTIVITIES. BOMBS DROPPED ON OIL REFINERIES . (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.18 a.m.) RUGBY, August 1. The weathbr which hampered daylight raids persisted atm.ight, and as a result only a few night bombers succeeded in reaching their objectives. Three aircraft located an oil refinery near Hanover, where the only definite result discerned through a gap in the clouds was three bursts across the target. At Emmerich one aircraft reported that a huge explosion followed shortly after the dropping of bombs on an oil refinery. The Ministry of Home Security reports that, apart from the single plane which bombed Norwich, enemy activity today was confined to occasional flights over the English Channel.