HEAVY ATTACK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 June 1941, Page 5

HEAVY ATTACK

ON CONVOY IN STRAITS OF DOVER LONG-RANGE GUNS SUPPORT ENEMY BOMBERS. R.A.F. RAIDS FRENCH COAST. M (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 7. German bombers, supporting the long-range guns at Boulogne and Cap Gris Nez. heavily attacked a large convoy in the Straits of Dover for hours last night. While the German guns were in action R.A.F. bombers raided the French coast, where searchlights and streams of tracer shells and bullets swept the sky. Only a few enemy planes appeared over England. A single bomb dropped in a London district injured several people. An Air Ministry and Home Security communique states that there was very little enemy activity over Britain during daylight today and up to six p.m. no bombs were reported to have been dropped.

AIR OFFENSIVE ATTACKS ON ENEMY SHIPPING. SUCCESSFUL RAID ON BREST. LONDON, June 8. Besides patrols over the Straits of Dover and enemy occupied territory, further daylight attacks have been made on enemy shipping off the Netherlands and Norwegian coasts. Three bombers and one fighter are missing. The German naval base at Brest, where the battle-cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau are lying’, was successfully raided again last night, in spite of fog. Many bombs were dropped across the docks. Docks and shipping at Bergen, in Norway, were also attacked. Not one British aircraft is missing.