MANY TARGETS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1940, Page 5

MANY TARGETS

OPERATIONS OF BOMBER COMMAND ATTACKS ON WAR FACTORIES & PORTS. AND ON NUMEROUS AERODROMES (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) RUGBY, November 11. An Air Force communique states: "Though hampered by severe electrical storms and icing conditions, Bomber Command aircraft last night attacked targets, ranging from the Bay of Biscay to the Baltic, which included oil plants at Gelsenkirchen, Ruhrland and. Bremen, Krupps’ works at Essen, the Fokker works at Amsterdam, factories at Mannheim . and Dresden. Docks and shipping at Kiel and Duisberg, the seaports of Lorient, Cher-> bburg, Le Havre, Dunkirk and Flushing, railway junctions at Danzig, Dessau, Manster, Mannheim and Dresden and fourteen aerodromes in Germany and occupied territory were also attacked. During daylight operations yesterday shipping was attacked at Boulogne and Calais. Five of our aircraft are missing.

NIGHT ATTACKS CHIEFLY IN LONDON AREA. CASUALTIES NOT HEAVY. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) RUGBY, November 11. An Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security communique states: “Yesterday, at about dusk, enemy aircraft dropped a few bombs at several points near the east coast, causing no serious damage or casualties. During the night enemy activity, while in general not particularly heavy, was somewhat greater than on the previous night, but it practically ceased soon after midnight. "A few isolated incidents occurred mainly in the Thames Estuary and on the south coast, in none of which was extensive damage done, but there were some casualties, including some persons killed. Most of these casualties occurred when a building was demolished at a point near the south bank of the Thames Estuary. Apart from these few Incidents bombing was concentrated on the London area. A few fires were caused, but only one of these was large and all were soon under control. A certain amount of damage was done to houses, commercial property and road mains in various parts of the capital, but the aggregate amount is not large and casualties are not likely to prove heavy.”