BRITISH BOMBERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1940, Page 6

BRITISH BOMBERS

EXTENSIVE & SUCCESSFUL RAIDS DAMAGE TO GREAT POWER STATION. THREE HUNDRED MILES INSIDE FRONTIER. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) RUGBY, September 25. In extensive R.A.F. operations against the enemy on Tuesday night, which included a long raid on Berlin, details of which are already known, as well as a continuation of the systematic attacks of recent nights on enemy invasion ports, only two of the aircraft employed were lost. The Finkenheers Electric Power Station, near Frankfurt on the Oder,' more than 300 miles from Germany’s western frontier, was located half an hour before midnight and was twice attacked with sticks of high-explosive bombs, which were seen to burst in and around the target. The main railway line near Madgeburg and the railway depot and distributing centre at Hamm were also attacked and a number of explosions on the main sidings and sheds at ■ Hamm were followed by a line' of fires. The goods yards at Brussels were also attacked, the Hanover Aerodrome was bombed from a high level, and at Hague, to the north of Emden, where night-flying by the enemy was in progress, a British raider came down to 2,000 feet to drop his bombs on the hangar and runway. The flare revealed the wreckage of a hangar destroyed by a previous attack. While long-distance raids on Germany were in progress, other strong forces of bombers, operating at short range, kept up their nightly hammering of the enemy’s invasion ports, from Hamburg to Le Havre. Fires were started at the Hamburg docks. Bombs straddled shipping bases at Cherbourg and at the Dutch port of Delfzil. A Hudson aircraft of the Coastal Command sank a German supply ship near the Frisian Islands early on Wednesday morning. There were three enemy vessels in a convoy. The Hudson made a dive-bombing attack on the largest vessel, which was leading. Three bombs made direct hits and the ship was settling by the stern when the Hudson flew away, followed by antiaircraft fire from the two other vessels. Brest was again attacked, this time by Beauforts and Ansons of the Coastal Command. They set tire to an infantry barracks,, damaged docks and started a vast fire' on and around a railway siding. When Coastal Command Blenheims raided Cherbourg, they had to contend with extremely bad visibility, but all found their objectives. One pilot had to search for his target for 35 minutes, amidst intense anti-aircraft fire. NAZI SCREECH TALK OF ORGANISED MURDER IN BERLIN. DENSELY-INHABITED AREAS BOMBED. (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) BERLIN, September 25. The official radio stated: “The British again attempted last night the organised murder of Berlin’s civil population. Single planes reached the inner area, bombing densely-inhabited working class districts and hospitals marked with the Red Cross. The. murderous pilots are carrying out Churchill's orders not to hit military objectives. This infamy, the Luftwaffe is answering with all the means at its disposal.”