R.A.F. OFFENSIVE CONTINUED VIGOROUSLY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1940, Page 5

R.A.F. OFFENSIVE CONTINUED VIGOROUSLY

Many Important Objectives Attacked INCLUDING NAVAL DOCKYARDS AND HARBOURS RAIDERS JOURNEY RIGHT ACROSS REICH An Air Ministry communique transmitted by Daventry gives details of Monday night’s raids over Germany by the R.A.F. The bombers went right across Germany and attacked important gasworks in the suburbs of Berlin, but these were not the most important objectives. • German dockyards at Hamburg, Bremen, Wilhelmshaven and Kiel and concentrations of shipping at Ostend, Calais and Boulogne were attacked. The heaviest attack was at Hamburg, where some tons of high explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped oyer the docks, which had already been seriously damaged during the previous night’s raid. Great fires were started. Direct hits were obtained on the naval station at Wilhelmshaven. At the Kiel dockyards a large fire was started. Shipping at Ostend was heavily attacked and fires and explosions were seen in all parts of the harbour. Barges at Calais were bombed for over an hour and shipping and barges were also attacked at Kiel. A heavy raid was also made on the goods yards at Brussels. Many other objectives were attacked. From these widespread series of operations all but three British machines returned. German supply ships off Norway and a German military camp in the Bergen area were also attacked, RAID ALARMS IN LONDON London had five air raid alarms yesterday. The four earlier ones were all short. An Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security communique states that during the morningseveral enemy aircraft bombed a town in East Anglia. Some buildings were damaged and there were several casualties, some fatal. A few enemy aircraft which penetrated the London area appeared to be on reconnaissance and no bombs were reported to have been dropped in this area. Bombs were dropped at a few points in Kent and Sussex and a small number of persons was injured. Among the buildings hit by bombs in the London area on Monday night were a large maternity hospital, a poor law institution and a London County Council housing estate. Fires were started near St Paul’s and the Guildhall.