FURY OF BOMBING
BRUNT FALLS ON HAMBURG & CLYDESIDE HAVOC IN THE SCOTTISH AREA. CASUALTIES “NOT EXCESSIVE." (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright» (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) LONDON. March 14. Europe’s moonlight battle in the air continued last night with unabated fury. Hamburg and Clydeside took the brunt of great bombing raids launched from both sides of the North Sea. The R.A.F. and the Luftwaffe are taking the utmost advantage of the present' weather conditions, which are best described as an answer to a bomber’s dream. Fatal casualties in Clydeside are not excessive in view of the heaviness of the attack, which lasted from dusk until early morning. The damage done was mainly to tenements and residential property, but embraced some industrial establishments. The anti-air-craft barrage was heavy and continuous and night fighters frequently intercepted and drove off raiders. The lessons of other cities have been well noted. Firemen and the public were ready to tackle incendiaries before they did much damage. All fires were brought under control remarkably quickly. The major public ser- ; vices are functioning normally today. , Homeless people were temporarily ac- , commodated at rest centres and received food and clothing. Bombs razed a row of houses in one i area, burying the tenants. Several fam- j ilies were trapped when a high-explo- j sive bomb directly hit a three-storied ; tenement, which crashed on a shelter in which there wei’e several people. , While rescuers were endeavouring to < extricate those trapped, a bomb struck another tenement on the other side of ] the street. Only a creater marks the site. '
A band of thirty youths hastily equipped themselves to fight firebombs and smothered scores before they had done any damage. The civil defence personnel commandeered commercial transport to carry injured people to hospital. Clydesside had almost come to believe itself immune from a full dress blitz, but the Luftwaffe made the most of the conditions. Many of the new. aptly-named chandelier flares were dropped. They were probably intended as a hindrance to the anti-aircraft guns, because the moon was bright enough to show almost any target. NAZI REPORT (Received This Day. 12.35 p.m.) LONDON, March 14. A German communique claims that strong formations attacked the shipbuilding centre of Glasgow, with particular success. Ha’rbours, docks, shipyards, workshops, a supply dump, stores and warehouses were bombed and fires spread into a sea of flames. Other formations Attacked Liverpool and Hull and destroyed establishments of industry and industrial plants. Further ■ successful attacks were directed against important targets in the south of England and in the Midlands.
* BOMBER SHOT DOWN
LITTLE ENEMY DAYLIGHT ACTIVITY. (Received This Day/ 1 p.m.) RUGBY, March 14. An Air Ministry and Ministry of Horne Security communique states: "Very few enemy aircraft have come over Britain during daylight today and there are no reports of bombing from any area. “An enemy bomber was intercepted by British fighters and shot down into the sea off the Welsh coast this morning.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 March 1941, Page 6
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