SHATTERING BLOWS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1940, Page 6

SHATTERING BLOWS

R.A.F. RAIDS ON THURSDAY NIGHT SOME DETAILS OF DAMAGE DONE. AT STETTIN AND IN OTHER. AREAS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.34 p.m.) RUGBY. November 29. British bombers again proved their ability to raid industrial centres deep in Germany last night. They renewed their attack on Politz, near Stettin, on the Baltic, which six weeks ago was the object of a heavy and remarkably successful raid. Bombs dropped by the first aircraft, which was making a round trip of 1,300 miles, started immediate fires, followed by a brilliant explosion—a white flash among the buildings. Other bombers then weighed in, one observer reporting at least twelve big fires. Another observed counted eight more fires as a result of his own bombing. The flames, enlivened by many lesser explosions, spread quickly amongst the debris. Shipbuilding yards at Stettin itself were also bombed. Stettin, since the completion of the Berlin-Stettin Ship Canal in 1914, has been Berlin’s outlet to the sea.

A side blow was given to the German Navy by the bombing, with consequent fires and explosions, of a Mannheim factory which turns out submarine engines. Another armament works, at Dusseldorf, was also attacked. Sidings and goods yards were bombed at Koblenz, Ludwigshaven and Neuff, near Dusseldorf. Bridges,and road and rail junctions on both banks of the Rhine were singled out. Earlier in the night, other aircraft had ranged widely over enemy docks and shipping from Cuxhaven to Le Havre. Fires broke out in Boulogne Harbour and at Antwerp one aircraft made no fewer than three preliminary runs in order to be certain of hitting the docks acurately., NAZI' STORY “SOME HOUSES DAMAGED." (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) , LONDON, November 29. A German communique says several British planes dropped bombs on northern and western Germany. Some houses were damaged and a reserve military hospital was struck.