SMASHED BY ROYAL AIR FORCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1940, Page 5

SMASHED BY ROYAL AIR FORCE

News Featured in American Papers TROOPS EMBARKED BUT LANDED AGAIN ON SEPTEMBER 16 HEAVY DAMAGE IN BERLIN AND ELSEWHERE IN LATEST RAIDS American papers feature a report that the R.A.F. smashed German invasion plans on September 16, a 8.8. C. broadcast reports. The statement has aroused great interest in the United States. It is based on a short sentence in a communique issued by the Air Ministry to the effect that on September 16 German troops were embarked, but were later taken off the ships. The invasion plans were not advanced because of attacks by the R.A.F. September 16 was the day chosen by Hitler for the invasion of Britain. A heavy German air attack on Britain took place on September 15, when 185 Germans planes were shot down, and on September 16 there was a high tide and the weather was calm, but a gale blew up in the night. Reports from neutral sources give an indication of the heavy damage done in Germany by the R.A.F. In Berlin several factories and the Post Office have been partly wrecked, and gas works badly damag’ed. Rail traffic in Germany is in a state of chaos because of British bombing. Many giant industrial plants over a wide area have been severely punished. Enemy Raiding FEW ATTACKS ON BRITAIN YESTERDAY CASUALTIES DURING SEPTEMBER There was little German air activity over Britain yesterday the 8.8. C. states, attacks being confined to very smallnumbers of single aircraft. An Air Ministry communique states that bombs were dropped in one place in South-East Scotland yesterday morning and in a few places in South-East England during yesterday. In one town in Hampshire some houses were damaged and there were some casualties. The plane which dropped bombs in South-East Scotland is believed to have been shot down over the sea. It is officially stated that during September 6,954 people were killed and 10,615 seriously injured in German air raids on Britain.