HARD AT IT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1940, Page 6

HARD AT IT

BRITISH BOMBERS ASSAIL ENEMY PORTS LORIENT ONCE AGAIN BLASTED. ATTACKS IN BAD WEATHER. (British Official Wireless.) . (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) RUGBY, December 29. The Air Ministry news service states: "Last night was very dark and cloudy, but aircraft of the Bomber Command were able to continue their attack on the submarine base at Lorient. The raid, which was fairly heavy, lasted for a little more than an hour, beginning at about seven o’clock in the evening. The pilots often had to wait for low clouds to pass, but when they did it was possible to see bursts on the banks of the River Loire, where the docks, slips and factories of Lorient are situated. What one pilot described as a very large explosion followed the dropping of one stick of bombs. “The docks at Boulogne were also attacked, though the weather was equally unfavourable. AH the bombs were seen to explode alongside the Basin Loubet. The harbour of Cherbourg was also raided and a small force went to bomb the docks at Antwerp and Rotterdam. At. Rotterdam our aircraft were fori unate enough to find a patch of clear weather,”