MADE BY BRITISH BOMBERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1940, Page 5

MADE BY BRITISH BOMBERS

On Enemy Ports and Naval Bases THIRTY FIRES STARTED AT EMDEN SCATTERED NAZI RAIDS OVER BRITAIN Further heavy and widespread attacks have been made by British bombing squadrons on enemy-occupied Channel ports and on German shipyards and naval bases, the 8.8. C. reports. At Emden, where over 1,000 incendiary bombs were dropped, thirty fires were caused in the target area. From all these operations, two British planes are missing. The British Air Minister, Sir A. Sinclair, stated that British attacks on Berlin and other German cities had increased, were still increasing and would continue to increase. One of the British fighters reported missing on Tuesday is safe, so that the British losses on that day were five planes and two pilots. A Dornier plane escorting ships off Brest was destroyed by aircraft of the Coastal Command. A Messerschmitt was shot down in the sea off the English coast. The Air Ministry reports that a number of enemy aircraft approached Southampton yesterday afternoon. Few penetrated inland. Some bombs were dropped in Southampton. Enemy air attacks were made on Tuesday night on London, Scotland and the Midlands. Damage in London was not heavy and the number of casualties was not large. In East Scotland, bombs damaged some industrial property and houses. Shortly before dawn a Welsh town was bombed. Some people were killed or injured. Seventeen German raiders have been shot down over Merseyside since intensive attacks began. Military damage done by the raiders is said to have been practically negligible.