AGAIN BOMBED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 November 1941, Page 5

AGAIN BOMBED

RUHR AND RHINELAND ATTACKS ON ENEMY PORTS & SHIPPING. REVIEW' OF AIR OFFENSIVE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.2 a.m.) RUGBY, November 5. An Air Ministry communique states: “Aircraft of the Bomber Command, flying through thick cloud, attacked industrial districts in the Ruhr and Rhineland last night. Docks at Ostend and Dunkirk were also bombed. “Coastal Command aircraft searched the Dutch and Norwegian coasts for enemy shipping. Off Terschelling a large supply ship, in a convoy, was bombed and hit. “One aircraft of the Coastal Command is missing.” Another message states that the ship hit was bombed from mast height. Every ship in the convoy was machinegunned and its anti-aircraft guns silenced. It was learned today that in its attacks oh Germany and German-occu-pied territory the R.A.F. has dropped over 10,000 tons ,of bombs in the last three months. During October, 300 attacks were made on enemy shipping in the North Sea and off the Dutch and French coasts, an average of ten attacks a day.

Many attacks have been made on the German battle-cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the cruiser Prince Eugen, in Brest, where these ships are still lying under various stages of repair. They have been kept off the Atlantic for seven months.