BOMBING RAID

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 November 1940, Page 6

BOMBING RAID

ON WEST OF ENGLAND CASUALTIES NOT VERY HEAVY. SOME GERMAN CLAIMS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON. November 25. Although last night’s raid on a west of England town was on a fairly heavy scale, the enemy did not use as many planes as he did in the previous Midlands 'attack. It is estimated that probably a hundred bombers participated. It is believed that casualties are not very heavy, considering the intensity of the raid. Rescuers are still searching the ruins of buildings. A Home Counties town was bombed last night. Five bombs fell in an East Anglian town and demolished houses and shops. The German News Agency stated that strong bomber formations attacked Bristol last night and dropped several hundred tons of bombs. Forty-five fires were observed. A gasometer was blown up and warehouses suffered severely. “As a distributing centre and railway junction,” the report asserts, “Bristol is wiped out.” ATTACK ON BERLIN BRITISH REPORT DENIED. (Received This Day, Noon.) LONDON, November 25. A German communique mentions air attacks on Battersea, Southwark and objectives on the west and south coasts. It states that British planes dropped a few bombs in Northern Germany, “with no appreciable results,” and adds: “A British announcement that Berlin railway stations were plastered with bombs on the night of November 23 is false. No enemy plane was over the capital on that night.”