AIR ATTACKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1940, Page 5

AIR ATTACKS

RESUMED BY THE R.A.F. AERODROMES AND SUBMARINE BASE BOMBED. DAYLIGHT RAIDS BY COASTAL COMMAND PLANES. During daylight yesterday, states a 8.8. C. broadcast, Coastal Command aircraft attacked , German-occupied aerodromes in Brittany and the submarine base at Lorient. It is from aerodromes in this part of the French coast that German planes set out to attack the western approaches to Britain, and similarly, German submarines set out from Lorient on the same mission. All the British machines returned.

On Thursday night Bordeaux, one of the possible enemy bases for an invasion of Britain, was heavily bombed once more by the R.A.F.

RAIDS ON BRITAIN FEW ISOLATED VISITS YESTERDAY. BOMBER SHOOTS DOWN FIGHTER OFF FRENCH COAST. A few isolated visits by enemy planes were made in Britain yesterday, states the 8.8. C. Some bombs were dropped in a town in the southeast of England, causing a number of minor casualties. Enemy raiders also appeared over four towns in widely separated parts of the country. Off the French coast two Messerschmitt 109’s attacked a Blenheim bomber of the Coastal Command. In a running fight' lasting about ten minutes one German plane was shot down and the other was severely damaged and was last seen making for home. EFFECTIVE FIRE TOLL OF ENEMY PLANES TAKEN BY SHIPS. NEARLY 200 SINCE WAR BEGAN. Anti-aircraft gun fire of the ships of the Royal Navy and other ships have shot down 192 German planes since the beginning of the war, a 8.8. C. broadcast states. It is also believted that 91 more have been brought down and 100 others damaged. RECORD RECOVERY MANCHESTER ALMOST BACK TO NORMAL. MASS FUNERAL FOR VICTIMS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, December 26. Manchester is establishing a record for her recovery from the “blitz” raid of last Sunday.' The streets are now almost cleared of glass and other debris, the essential services are nearly normal and the food supplies are adequite. ’ A mass funeral of the victims will be held on Saturday. ON BOXING DAY NO OPERATIONS BY R.A.F. AT ANY PLACE IN EUROPE. (Received This Day, 9.0 a.m.) LONDON, December 27. It is authoritatively announced that the R.A.F. carried out no operations in Europe throughout the whole of Boxing Day. It is learned that a small number of R.A.F. bombers carried out a raid on enemy occupied territory in the early hours of today.