HEAVY DAMAGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 November 1940, Page 5

HEAVY DAMAGE

DONE TO LARGE FACTORY IN BERLIN LOCKS AT KIEL BOMBED. DETECTION OF CONCEALED OIL PLANTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, November 20. A further bulletin on last night’s raids reveals that much damage is believed to have been inflicted by the R.A.F. on a large factory in Berlin manufacturing electrical equipment for the German Navy. The raiders arrived at Kiel at 3 a.m. and bombed naval shipbuilding yards and five locks on the Kiel Canal for more than an hour. Pilots who attacked the Deutschewerke shipbuilding yards found considerable cloud even to 500 feet, but placed explosive and many incendiary bombs on the yards. A target in Ruhrland, a synthetic oil plant, is situated in a clearing in a forest, but a number of our bombers detected the objective. Bombers also attacked the Mitteldeutsche oil refinery at Lutzen and started a large fire. For the second night they damaged and set fire to an oil refinery at Leuna. Bombs dropped on Aurich are believed to have set fire to an ammunition train. The raiders attacked an oil refinery and also the Blohm and Voss yards at Hamburg, and incendiary bombs started large fires among a group of five electrical power plants serving many factories in Hamborn.

EFFECTIVE BLOWS STRUCK BY BRITISH BOMBERS. AIR MINISTRY- REPORT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.3 a.m.) RUGBY, November 21. An Air Ministry communique states: “The R.A.F. last night made a largescale attack on the inland port of Duisbergruhrort. Shipping and warehouses were damaged and there were many fires and explosions. Other aircraft attacked Lorient, Cherbourg, Dunkirk and Ostend, and several enemy aerodromes were bombed. German aircraft, taking off at Amiens, were set on fire. One of our aircraft has not reported at its base.”

ON MINOR SCALE WEDNESDAY NIGHT’S RAIDS ON BRITAIN. WIDESPREAD BUT DESULTORY ATTACKS. LONDON, November 21. This morning's communique by the Air Ministry states: “Enemy activity last night was widespread but desultory and the attacks were on an intermittent, minor scale. Bombs were dropped in the London area, Midlands, Southern England, north-west England, and south Wales. Fires were started in several towns in the Midlands, where explosive bombs demolished some houses and damaged others. A number of persons were killed and injured. The attacks elsewhere were generally ineffective, though there was some damage.”