HIDDEN FACTORY !

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1941, Page 5

HIDDEN FACTORY !

SEARCHED OUT & BOMBED BY BRITISH PLANES ONE OF MANY TARGETS ATTACKED IN WESTERN GERMANY & NORWAY. ENEMY CONVOY SMASHED OFF DUTCH COAST. LONDON. September 7. Blenlieim bombers, Hanked by fighters, set fire to an enemy supply ship off I he Dutch coast, blew up its escort and shot down a German fighter. In an offensive sweep over .Northern France. British planes destroyed another German tighter. The British losses were two Blenheim bombers and two fighters.

British bombers last night went to Western Germany and searched out one of the enemy's most carefully camouflaged war factories —an estab- ■ lishment engaged in the manufacture of synthetic rubber. The factory was an isolated one. carefully hidden in a forest. One plane flew over the target for one and a half hours before the crew were certain of the target. Bombs wore then dropped. In spite of many searchlights and anti-aircraft gunfire, some of the planes flew as low as 1000 feet and dropped their bombs right in the middle of the target. Direct hits were observed on several buildings and one load fell on a storage tank. An angry red glow and clouds of dense smoke were seen when the planes left. Other targets in Western Germany and an attack on a Norwegian fish oil factory, which was set on fire, were also carried out. Eight of our bombers were lost in these raids.

ENEMY RAIDS SOME BOMB DAMAGE IN S.W. ENGLAND. SMALL NUMBER OF PEOPLE INJURED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10 a.m. RUGBY, September 7. Enemy activity last night was over South-West and East England. Bombs dropped in the south-west caused some damage and injured a small number of people. Elsewhere neither damage nor casualties are reported. GOOD WEATHER FAVOURS BRITISH ATTACKS. NORWEGIAN OIL FACTORY SET ON FIRE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Dav. 10 a.m.) RUGBY. September 7. Last night British bombers attacked an important synthetic rubber factory at Huis, in the Rhineland. The weather was good and many bursts were seen on the target. Large fires were left burning. Communications and other industrial objectives in West Germany were also bombed. Coastal Command aircraft last night attacked a harbour at Bergso Island, on the west coast of Norway. An oil factory was hit and set on fire. “From these operations eight aircraft of the Bomber Command are missing. The crew of one bomber, which was lost on Tuesday night, have been saved.”