SUCCESSFUL RAIDS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1940, Page 6

SUCCESSFUL RAIDS

BY R.A.F. & SOUTH AFRICANS ON ENEMY LAND & NAVAL BASES. PLANES DESTROYED & FIRES STARTED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 1.35 p.m.) RUGBY. September 24. A R.A.F. communiqque issued in Cairo on Tuesday states:—"On Sunday our bombers attacked enemy aircraft on the Menastir landing ground. All the bombs fell in the target area. Yesterday, a second attack was delivered and three explosions were seen among the aircraft, followed by fires. “Two raids were made on Tobruk Harbour yesterday. In the first, bombs burst among buildings and on a jetty. During the second attack, bombs were observed to fall on buildings and very close to ships moored alongside the jetty. “Zula, in Eritrea, was attacked on the night of September 21. There was a direct hit on buildings and a fire broke out immediately. Four other fires, visible from a distance of twenty miles, were started in the centre of the camp. * “Yesterday a successful attack, made on technical buildings and an aerodrome at Mai Abaga resulted in a direct hit on buildings and on aircraft on the ground, two fighters being definitely destroyed. “Aircraft of the South African Air Force raided Sciasciamanna, in Central Abyssinia, on September 22. An enemy bomber on the ground was destroyed.”