ANOTHER SMASHING ATTACK MADE ON TURIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 December 1940, Page 5

ANOTHER SMASHING ATTACK MADE ON TURIN

Italian Royal Arsenal Badly Damaged FOURTEEN RAIDERS SHOT DOWN OVER BRITAIN WESTERN GERMANY GETS HEAVY BOMBING Details have been made known of a formidable assault made by the Royal Air Force on Turin on Wednesday night, a 8.8. C. broadcast states. The attack was made from bases in Great Britain as well as in the Mediterranean. The Royal Arsenal, one of Italy’s main armament factories, was the principal. objective and it was badly damaged. One bomber made the flight from Britain to Turin and back in nine hours. A heavy explosion followed an attack on the Fiat works at Turin and fires were started in subsidiary factories. The attack was maintained for hours. An intelligence officer asked one of the pilots on his return: “Did you get it?’’ “We got it all right,’’ the pilot replied, 1 ‘there is no doubt about that. ’ ’ British fighters had a big success yesterday in actions over Britain, shooting down 13 German planes, while another was destroyed by anti-aircraft gunfire. Eight of the 14 were accounted for by a single squadron of Spitfires without British loss. Two British fighters were lost during the day, but the pilot of one is safe. On Wednesday night the R.A.F. made a twelve-hour attack on Dusseldorf. The steel works, which employ 6,000 people, were heavily attacked. The Dusseldorf gasworks, quays and docks on the Rhine and railway yards were also bombed.