LONG-RANGE GUNS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1940, Page 5

LONG-RANGE GUNS

BRITISH BATTERIES IN ACTION. CHANNEL PORTS BOMBARDED FURIOUSLY. LONDON, September 30. British long-range guns in addition to the Royal Air Force have furiously battered ports in northern France in the last 48 hours. The guns have fired a salvo every minute. At Calais and other ports warehouses have been destroyed, docks put out of action, and channels blocked by sunken ships. The R.A.F. raids on the invasion bases are stated to be so damaging that the Germans find it difficult to use them. In spite of a rainstorm the British bombers tonight again delivered a smashing blow at the invasion ports, and watchers on the English coast saw the flashes of bursting bombs along many miles of the French coast. They were specially numerous in the region of Boulogne. NOT OVER YET DANGER OF INVASION. WARNING ISSUED BY NAVAL CIRCLES. ■ LONDON, September 29. Naval circles have issued a warning that autumn and winter will not remove the danger of invasion. The seasonal lull, like a second summer, which usually occurs in the next few weeks, would permit flat-bottomed boats to navigate the Channel,. The German preparations in the Channel ports -are too consistent to constitute merely an attempt to divert British bombers. BUNKS FOR SHELTERS CONSTRUCTION OF MILLION IN HAND. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 29. Plans are being rapidly pushed forward for supplying public air-raid shelters with bunks in order that an increasing portion of London’s population may sleep in safety and relative comfort. More than 1,000,000 of these bunks are being produced, and it is expected that the first big batch will be delivered to shelters in 10 days’ time. Made in three tiers, the lowest of which is of wood so as to provide a seat during the day, samples of these bunks were tested today by Admiral Sir Edward Evans, one of London’s regional commissioners, who expressed his approval. It is expected that a good deal of the wood from which the bottom bunk and the frames will be made will be obtained from houses which have been damaged by Nazi bombs. '