ON LARGE SCALE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 February 1941, Page 5

ON LARGE SCALE

LATEST BRITISH NIGHT ATTACK'S SATISFACTORY RESULTS. MANY FIRES & EXPLOSION'S. 'British Ofticl-sl WirrlrM- 1 <Received This Day 10.10 ain > j RUGBY February 5 Ari Air Ministry communique i states: "The R.A.F. resumed attacks on the enemy last night, over ; a Vitde area and on a scale larger i than for the last fortnight. Clouds | prevented full observation, but the results were satisfactory. ‘Bombers attacked Dusseldorf ■ where fires were seen to break out. A i ’ram in the nvUtlibourhood also wnsl ■lit and bur t into flames and hij’h ex-1 p|oM‘>ws fell m tw.- nearby railway | iunclions. ■Other aircraft ..f the curie cn.nv j nand bumbed docks at Brest., where j li’.erc was a Very larjte red tire and j tome heavy explosions.

"Another force bombed Dunkirk. Dieppe am! Ostend, where docks were hit '•Aerodromes at Vfinnes and other placc-s in occupied France and also docks al Bordeaux were successfully attacked Consiul Command aircraft visited Cherbourg twice and docks and repair yard-, were straddled with high explosives "Four of air aircraft are missing.”