FLEET AIR ARM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1940, Page 5

FLEET AIR ARM

| ATTACK ON BOULOGNE QUAYS & RAILWAY CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE IN BERLIN. AND TN OTHER AREAS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 31. A communique by the Air Ministry states: “Last evening Albacore aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm, operating with the Coastal Command, carried out bombing attacks on quays and a railway siding at Boulogne. "Strong forces of R.A.F. bombers last night attacked selected military objectives in the Berlin area. Fires and explosions resulted, and it is estimated that considerable damage was done. "Other sections of our'raiding forces attacked oil supply depots at Gelsenkirchen, Magdeburg . and Cherbourg, shipping at Emden, the goods yards at Hamm and Soest, gun emplacements at Cap Gris Nez, and several enemy aerodromes in Germany arid Holland. "Two of our aircraft are missing and three made forced landings on our coasts.”

NAZI ADMISSIONS GUNS FAIL TO STOP BRITISH PLANES. MOST INTENSE RAID YET MADE ON BERLIN. LONDON, August 31. The Berlin correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain, says that the British raiders came over in waves, crossing Berlin in i spite of the terrific anti-aircraft ' barrage which rained shell-splint-I ers over the city. High explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped, causing fires. The raid alarm sounded at 1.39 a.m., and ended at 3.16 a.m. Anti-aircraft guns went into action several minutes before the sirens sounded. Communications with the outside world were cut while the raid was in progress. The Germans admitted that the raiders slightly damaged an electrical appliance factory. The Berlin correspondent of the British United Press reports that the raid started fires half a mile southward of Unter den Linden.

Kurt Daluege, the Prussian Minister for the Interior, accompanied journalists on a short tour of Berlin after the raid. He said the British attack was the most intense since the outbreak of the war, and added that the raiders, in half the time, dropped more bombs and caused more damage than in the raid in the early morning of Thursday.

RAIDED AGAIN PLANES ATTACK BERLIN ON SATURDAY NIGHT. LONDON, September 1. It is officially announced that a strong force of R.A.F. bombers last night again attacked military objectives in the Berlin area.