DAMAGE IN BERLIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 June 1941, Page 5

DAMAGE IN BERLIN

ADMITTED BY THE NAZIS MAIN ATTACK ON RHINELAND INDUSTRIES. DAYLIGHT OPERATIONS OF BRITISH PLANES, (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, June 3. Berlin was among the targets of R.A.F. bombers last night, but the main weight of the attack was directed against industrial towns in the Rhine. Only a few bombs were dropped on the German capital, but the enemy has admitted that material damage was done. In daylight yesterday aircraft of the Bomber Command attacked shipping and other objectives in the Kiel Canal as well as enemy vessels off the north German coast. R.A.F. fighters ranged over northers France and the Channel, swooping low out of the clouds to attack motor transport, aerodromes and an E boat. One pilot came down to 500 feet and shot up three large military lorries. Then he found an aerodrome, and, diving to 100 feet, let go with his cannons at four German grounded aircraft. A sergeant-pilot twice dived to attack an E boat in the Channel, and afterward saw. it wallowing in the sea with its engines stopped. An American pilot officer .shot up two Messerschmitts at an aerodrome. SPORADIC ATTACKS MADE AT SOME POINTS IN BRITAIN. PEOPLE MACHINE-GUNNED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 11.50 a.m.) RUGBY, June 3. Bursts of machine-gun fire and the wounding of some people are reported in an Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security communique today. The communique says: "During the afternoon. a single enemy aircraft dropped

bombs on a town on the south coast. Several people were injured and damage was done to buildings. Another enemy aircraft, bombed a place on the north-cast coast. It is believed there were several bursts of machine-gun fire. The damage done was small, but some persons were wounded. Bombs dropped ,in the Eastern counties did no damage and caused no casualties. It has now been, confirmed that yesterday another enemy bomber was destroyed by our fighters off the east coast, making a total of / three for that day.”