BRITISH BOMBING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 December 1940, Page 5

BRITISH BOMBING

SUSPENDED ON SATURDAY NIGHT ATTACKS ON ENEMY SUPPLY SHIPS. SERIES OF SUCCESSES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.32 a.m.) RUGBY, December 1. An Air Ministry communique states: “Owing to adverse weather conditions, our bomber operations last night were cancelled. “Last Friday a Coastal Command aircraft successfully torpedoed an enemy supply ship off the Dutch coast. “Another successful torpedo attack, the third in 72 hours, involving over 20,000 tons- of enemy supply shipping, was made last Friday by a Beaufort aircraft of the Coastal Command. A vessel of 8.000 tons was struck on the stern and sank off the north Dutch coast. Earlier in the day it had been sighted in company with a well-escort-ed convoy of small ships. When the Beaufort went out to the attack, its pilot found there was practically no cloud cover. Nevertheless he came down to the attack and flew safely through a storm of anti-aircraft fire, and before he left the spot the ship was sinking by the stern. Later a patrol found only its upper works awash.”