MAINTAINED FOR SIX HOURS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 November 1940, Page 5

MAINTAINED FOR SIX HOURS

On Inland Port in Germany FIRES TOO NUMEROUS TO COUNT MANY ATTACKS ALSO ON AERODROMES AND PORTS In Wednesday night’s raids by the R.A.F., a 8.8. C. broadcast states, special attention was paid to a German inland distribution centre on the Rhine. The first British bombers arrived over the target shortly after 11 o’clock and the last raiders were still there at five o’clock in the morning. Bombs were \ dropped from high and low levels. From eleven o’clock, machine after machine arrived with clockwork regularly and bombs were dropped almost continuously. There were too many fires to count. Other raids were carried out during the night on many enemy aerodromes in Northern France, an oil plant in Holland, and the ports of Ostend, Dunkirk and Cherbourg and the 1 German submarine base at Lorient, in Brittany. ( SCATTERED RAIDS ON BRITAIN During yesterday a few German planes dropped bombs in various parts of England. Some people were killed, but there 1 were not many casualties or much damage. A Heinkel bomber was destroyed and a British fighter lost yesterday when the British plane rammed the German machine. A feature of yesterday’s German raids was the attacks made on villages.