HEAVY BOMBING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 September 1940, Page 5

HEAVY BOMBING

MANY ENEMY CENTRES ATTACKED FIFTY GERMAN PLANES LOST ON MONDAY. TWELVE BROUGHT DOWN BY'BATTERIES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) RUGBY, September 3. An Air Ministry communique states: “New targets in Germany and Italy were attacked by the Aircraft Bomber Command last night. Dynamite works at Schlebusch, north-east of Cologne, and the important railway junctions of San Pier Darens at Genoa were heavily bombed. Other aircraft attacked an electric power station in Genoa, oil installations at Ludwigshaven and Frankfurt, the Bosch ignition plugs factory at Stuttgart, for the second night in succession, Bayer explosives works near Cologne, the Dortmund-Ems-Canal, the French port of I’Orient and gun emplacements at Cap Gris Nez. Two of our aircraft were lost in these operations. “Aircraft of the Coastal Command bombed supply ships at sea off the Dutch coast yesterday and another supply ship in a Norwegian harbour on the Sogne Fiord and also forced down a Dornier flying-boat at sea.

“Attacks were made on oil tanks at Flushing and on the harbour at Ostend. One aircraft has not returned.”

The Air Ministry states: “Further reports of yesterday’s actions confirmed that eight more enemy aircraft were shot down yesterday by anti-aircraft fire. This brings the total enemy aircraft destroyed yesterday to 50, of which 12 were shot .down by anti-air-craft fire. The total number of enemy aircraft shot down by our ground defences is now over 200.