FURIOUS DUEL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1940, Page 5

FURIOUS DUEL

BETWEEN LONG=RANGE GUNS R.A.F. BOMBS ENEMY EMPLACEMENTS. NAZI TROOPS PRACTISING ’ CLIFF-CLIMBING. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, November 26. Miles of the French coast were illuminated tonight as the Royal Air Force bombed the German long-range guns which were simultaneously shelling over the English Channel. The firing was the heaviest that has yet been heard in Kent, and the explosions were almost continuous for three and a half hours. The British longrange guns replied furiously. A correspondent of the “Daily Express,” writing from the south-east coast, says that Germans are practising cliff-climbing by ropes and rope-ladders between Calais and Boulogne in full view of the British military and naval watchers, giving an impression that Hitler may order his army to make “blitz” sea raids during the long winter nights under cover of a fog.

ATTACK ON DOCKS AT NAVAL AND OTHER PORTS (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.53 a.m.) RUGBY, November 26. An Air Ministry communique, issued last night, states: “Our bombers attacked the naval base and dockyards at Kiel and Wilhelmshaven. Other aircraft attacked docks at Hamburg. Willemsoord. the Demok seaplane base and several enemy aerodromes. One of our aircraft is missing.”