CHANNEL PORTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 August 1940, Page 5

CHANNEL PORTS

HEAVILY AND EFFECTIVELY BOMBED

MANY FIRES AT CHERBOURG. DAMAGE AT BOULOGNE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.13 a.m.) RUGBY, August 26. Further details are given in an Air Ministry bulletin of the bombings of docks, buildings and quays in the enemy-occupied Channel ports of Cherbourg and Boulogne. The Cherbourg waterfront was lit by the glare of fires started among warehouses. Docks at Boulogne were also heavily attacked by aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm, operating with the Coastal Command. The weather was clear and the pilots obtained good views of their targets. Many heavy and incendiary bombs burst on docks and buildings round the basin.

ANCIENT CHURCH HIT BY NAZI BOMB. BURIAL PLACE OF MILTON. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) RUGBY, August 26. During Saturday night’s air raid on London the beautiful Fourteenth Century Church of St. Giles at Cripplegate, in the City, where the body of John Milton is buried, was hit. A statue of the poet, outside the church was damaged. RAID ON BERLIN ADMITTED BY GERMANS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) BERLIN. August 26. The High Command admits a R.A.F. raid on Berlin. It says it is the first since the outbreak of war and adds that the raiders dropped incendiary bombs on the outskirts of Berlin but that no damage was done.

“FIRST AID” PLANES

GERMANY’S LATEST THREAT.

(Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON. August 26.

The Reich Government has warned Britain of reprisals in the event of attacks against German first aid planes continuing. The German warning was sent via Switzerland. DAMAGE AT FOLKESTONE SIX HOUSES RAZED. NUMBER OF CASUALTIES FEARED. (Received This Day. 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, August 26. A salvo of bombs razed six houses near the seafront at Folkestone and it is feared that a number of casualties occurred. Bombs wrecked homes in other parts of the town, one hitting a building in which girls were working. Ships rescued the crews of three German planes shot down oil the south-east ’coast.

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