PUNISHING BLOWS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 November 1941, Page 5

PUNISHING BLOWS

STRUCK BY ROYAL AIR FORCE OFFENSIVE CONTINUED VIGOROUSLY. ) ATTACKS ON SHIPS & BASES. LONDON, November 2. Last night and early this morning the Royal Air Force continued its widely extended offensive and also bombed enemy shipping. An enemy convoy off the Frisian Islands was attacked by Hudsons of the Coastal Command. Two ships were hit. One of them blew up and the other caught fire. A Beaufort torpedo plane attacked a ship off La Pallice and at dawn this morning an attack was made on enemy ships off the Dutch coast. ( No planes were lost in these operations. Last night, a strong force of British bombers raided north-west Germany, Kiel and other targets being attacked. Brest, Le Havre and other ports were also bombed. Four of the British planes did not return. Six German bombers were shot down over Britain last night. This bag is considered highly satisfactory considering the small ( number of German planes over this country. TOLL OF RAIDERS TOTAL OF 600 SHOT DOWN IN BRITAIN. i MANY OTHERS BADLY DAMAGED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, November 1. Anti-aircraft gunners in the British Isles have shot down more than 600 enemy, aircraft since the beginning of the war, states the War Office. Besides this, accurate gunfire has smashed up mass formations, throwing the raiders off their line of bomb release and sending 1 hundreds limping away full of ugly holes where shell splinters found their mark. SCATTERED BOMBING SOME DAMAGE AT MERSEYSIDE. (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, November 2. The Air Ministry states: “Enemy aircraft flying over England and Wales towards the north-west, before midnight, dropped bombs at scattered points. Damage was done at Merseyside and a few other places. A. small number of casualties, including some killed, are reported in two places on the south coast.