IN BAD WEATHER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 November 1940, Page 5

IN BAD WEATHER

ENEMY DOCKS HEAVILY BOMBED THE ATTACK ON CHERBOURG. HITS SCORED ON BUILDINGS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.52 a.m.) RUGBY, October 31. R.A.F. operations were restricted last night, owing to bad weather, but docks at Hamburg and Flushing were heavily bombed and the naval base at Emden attacked. Cherbourg harbour - was attacked during daylight operations yesterday. Dockside buildings were hit and a heavy salvo of bombs was dropped among four E-boats cruising twenty miles out at sea. One enemy aircraft was destroyed and one of our aircraft is missing. ATTACKED BY DINGHY ACCIDENTALLY (INFLATED IN MID-AIR. GERMAN PILOT’S QUEER MISHAP. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 9.52 a.m.) RUGBY, October 31. A German pilot, taken prisoner in Kent, confessed that while flying at 25,000 feet he was attacked in the rear by his rubber dinghy, which had become accidentally inflated. In the effort to master the dinghy he lost..control and went into a spiral dive. On pulling 'out of this the engine stalled and he had to make a forced landing. EXTREME ALTITUDES FAVOURED BY GERMANS. LIMIT ALMOST REACHED. LONDON, October 30. The “Daily Telegraph” says high flying by the Germans over Britain has almost reached the limit set by the oxygen supply and they will be forced to use pressure suits and pressure cabins if they wish to go higher. R.A.F. pilots have encountered Germans at 37,500 feet —5000 feet under the scientifically determined upper practicable limit for military aviation. No country, so far as is known, has an appreciable number of planes which can be operated at over 40,000 feet.