WIDESPREAD HAVOC

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1940, Page 6

WIDESPREAD HAVOC

EFFECTED BY BRITISH BOMBERS IN NAZI INLAND AREAS AND PORTS. INDESCRIBABLE DESTRUCTION IN HAMBURG. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, October 13. British raids on Germany and occupied territory during the week ended at dawn on October 11 were on the same heavy scale as during the preceding week. Among the outstanding objectives attacked were: Berlin—power stations, gas works, aero-engine works, an electrical equipment factory, railways, goods yards. Essen —Krupps’ works twice raided. Grevenbroich —aluminium works and carbon electrode factory. Hanau —metal works. Seven great oil plants in Germany were bombed, including the Rhenania and Ossag works at Hamburg, with a combined annual output capacity of nearly 1J million metric tons, where states of “indescribable destruction” resulted within one kilometre radius of the Hamburg objective. In Norwegian waters supply ships were sunk by the Fleet Air Arm, while at Amsterdam the Fokker aircraft factory suffered three raids. In all 58 raids were carried out against ports, coastal defences and shipping, 28 against railway junctions and goods yards, 13 against factories, 35 against aerodromes and seaplane bases, 12 against oil plants, refineries and public utility establishments. In all these widespread raids, the R.A.F. lost only eight aircraft, while three German planes are known to have been destroyed. GERMAN REPORT DEATH OF' SOLDIERS ADMITTED. (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, October 13. A German communique says: “Bombers attacking London last night saw extensive fires resulting from the day’s operations in the centre of the city. Waterloo Station was. severely hit by several bombs. Two troop- encampments in the South of England were bombed, causing destruction in billets. A few British planes attacked Berlin and dropped bombs. One soldier was killed and several civilians were wounded. The damage was small. Attacks against industrial installations in Western and Northern Germany were unsuccessful. Houses were damaged and there were some casualties, including some persons fatally wounded.”