SECOND RAID
FURTHER HEAVY DAMAGE IN BREMEN WITHERING ONSLAUGHT. FIRES VISIBLE FROM DUTCH FRONTIER. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright» LONDON, January 3. For the second night in succession the R.A.F. raided Bremen last night with great violence. Fires started in the previous night's raid were found still to be burning. The targets were shipyards, the submarine base, docks and factories. They were exposed tu a withering onslaught. Though the attack was not as heavy as that > r: the previous night, it is described having been very successful.- „nd some of the fires started could be seen by our pilots from as far away as the Dutch coast. Much, devastation was caused by largecalibre bombs. The enemy naval base at Emden was also attacked —for the twenty-ninth time. The efficiency of Emden as a naval base is believed to have been consid erab 1 y i nipa i red The BBC reports that on Thursday night's raid some of the fires started on the preceding night were seen to be still burning and shipyards, docks and the railway station were again heavily bombed and new find tierce fires started. In places it was impossible to detect the burst of bombs in the heart of great tires Tile glow of tiie fires was still visible when the planes were over the Dutch frontier on their w.iv home. One Britan: aircraft it., ■ ifted to be missing. AIR MINISTRY REPORT HEAVY DAMAGE DONE. j AT BREMEN & EMDEN — • Received Thw 1)..y 9 ;■ m > LONDON. January 3 .he R A !■’ . raided Bremen on { Fimrsday night and that "although; U.sl'Jght , it! Ih fi'i'it*;! w-cs HOI - n the swtnt sciile Wednesday u- irnthi w.-r< seen i #v rail burn-! ng and increasing An earlv report! I: m'.iiersiisttii tlial the raids c-n, . nd Enidt n were on a heavy cMc, 1 h<- . iti on Brvtnrn was a re- ' > lh-‘-‘. :ra; ■■■.;• tile nrevraus mglu’s ■ ■ rnfranmu-m The . : s;iC k was < i'.e MM of tile w.t! -d i.h.tt place and j
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 January 1941, Page 5
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