COLOGNE BOMBED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1941, Page 5

COLOGNE BOMBED

HEAVY ATTACK BY R.A.F. 150 FIRES REPORTED. NIGHT-FLYING FIGHTERS ACTIVE IN FRANCE. A heavy attacks on Cologne, lasting hours, was carried out by the R.A.F. on Wednesday night, states the 8.8. C. At one time there were 150 fires burning in the bombed area. British pilots, after lighting the target area on both sides of the Rhine, dropped bombs on oil stores, industrial buildings, wharves and warehouses. It was the R.A.F.’s 56th raid. A new type of raid was made by night-flying fighters, which bombed and machine-gunned enemy bases in Northern France. Two German aircraft on the ground were probably destroyed. One of the four British planes reported missing on Wednesday night's operations landed safely away from its aerodrome. NIGHT RAIDS DAMAGE IN LONDON AREA. WELSH COASTAL TOWN BOMBED. LONDON. February 27. The enemy raiders last night operated earlier than for some time past, but the all-clear came well before midnight. Rescuers worked in darkness to reach victims who wore trapped in the debris when bombs wrecked homes in a town in the south-east. | High-explosive bombs demolished 10 houses in one London district. Seven persons were seriously injured and others are believed to be trapped in the debris. Incendiary and high-explosive bombs were dropped on a town in the Thames Estuary, considerably damaging houses and public buildings. A Welsh coastal town was severely raided for some hours.

HEINKEL BADLY HIT

ENCOUNTER WITH NAVAL UNITS. LOSS CONSIDERED CERTAIN. (British Official Wireless i 'Received This Dav, 10.55 a.m.) RUGBY. Februar) 27. An Admiralty communique states: :"A Hcinkel 111 which a ppia .ached some of our small units in the North Sea this morning was promptly and hotly engaged. The aircraft was certainly hit and was last seen flying low and still losing height with its tail well down and one engine stopped. The weather was too rough to allow an investigation but it is considered certain this Heinkel did not return to its base."