FROM WEST AND EAST
AIR ATTACKS ON GERMANY
R.A.F. DAY & NIGHT OPERATIONS MORE DESTRUCTION EFFECTED IN RHINELAND. RUSSIANS AGAIN BOMB BERLIN. LONDON:’ August 19.
The ILA.K is giving the Gormans no respite on the Western front. Bombers, escorted by lighters, today carried out extensive raids on object ives in Northern Prance. Eight enemy lighters were destroyed by the escorting planes. Six of ours are missing. but lhe pilots of two are sal'e. Both were picked up by the air sea rescue section in the English Channel.
Moscow reports that Russian bombers were over Berlin again last night, while the R.A.F. were attacking the great industrial centres of Cologne and Duisburg. The Russians state that incendiary and high explosive bombs were dropped on military and industrial objectives. Fires and explosions occurred. All the Russian planes returned.
The R.A.F. raids were carried out in fine weather. Great numbers of heavy bombs were dropped and many big fires broke out.
The Germans have considerably strengthened the Rhineland air defences in an attempt to protect their vital war industries. The anti-aircraft gun fire was fiercer than ever and one British bomber over Cologne was held in searchlights for an hour. Docks at Dunkirk and aerodromes in occupied territory were also attacked.
Eight British planes are missing.
NAZI ADMISSIONS
NEED OF CONCEALING RESULTS
OF BOMBING
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 18. The official Nazi excuses for concealment of the news of the effects of the British air offensive on Germany show a change of tone from the Luftwaffe’s boastfulness earlier in the war and, though imitative of the common sense British policy since the start of air attacks here, are likely to prove cold comfort to the German people, who had been guaranteed protection by Goering
against aerial onslaughts. A writer in the "Deutschlander Zeitung” says: "We fully understand that the German population cannot be informed to what extent German towns are suffering. We do not mind lhe neighbours of those who lose their homes knowing the facts. This is unavoidable. but the German High Command prefers not to make the facts known throughout Germany, as this would probably give the? enemy valuable information as to what part to bomb next. When the time arrives making it possible to inform the German people of the results of the British bombing, they will learn that the actual destruction falls behind British expectations.”
VAIN HOPE
ENTERTAINED BY GERMANS
ZURICH, August 19
In an article in “Neue Zuercher Zeitung.” a writer recently 'arrived from Germany declares that the new British bombs arc fitted with a propeller. for which reason the Berliners hope that they are sea torpedoes which are being used because the British factories have been destroyed and Britain’s stocks of bombs exhausted.
SHOT DOWN
ENEMY BOMBING PLANE.
IN ATTACK ON LIGHT NAVAL CRAFT.
(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 9.10 a.m.)
RUGBY. August 19.
An Admiralty communique I states: “A Junkers 88 which attacked .a group cf mine-eweepers was shot down into the sea. It was hit by light anti-air-craft fire from the mine-sweepers in a group and by a shell from his Majesty’s trawler Charles Doran. There were no casualties or damage on our ships.”
MORE GUNS
BROUGHT UP BY GERMANS.
AIRMEN NOT DETERRED BY “FIREWORKS.”
(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.)
RUGBY, August 19.
Once more the Germans appear to have brought up a new defence for the Ruhr and Rhineland. The Air Ministry News Service states, in describing last night's R.A.F. attack: "One bomber was held over Cologne by searchlights for a whole hour while there was fierce anti-aircraft fire from both sides of the river, but the weather was on the side of the attackers and they dropped load after load of incendiary and high-explosive bombs on factories and railways in Cologne and Duisburg. “We played our usual game of hide and seek with searchlights and antiaircraft fire." said a rear-gunner, "and didn’t let the fireworks put us off. As wo turned sharply away from Cologne, after the bombing, I could see our own fires adding to the light of those that were there before. There were as many large fires in Duisburg as in Cologne, including a great oil fire on the west bank of the river, opposite the inland docks. It was burning explosively with a heavy cloud of black smoke over it.”
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