ANOTHER BLOW

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 March 1942, Page 3

ANOTHER BLOW

I- AT NAZI WAR PRODUCTION IN FRANCE 0 ’ ' FACTORY WEST OF PARIS BOMBED. Z s POWER STATION & RAILWAY y ALSO ATTACKED. o LONDON, March 8. ’ For the second time this month a factory working for the Germans in the Paris district has been 1 bombed by the R.A.F. The attack - | was made this afternoon, but full e details are not yet available. It is known in London that the raid was carried out by a small force of bombers and that the factory was at a small town on the Seine, 50 miles west of Paris. Other bombers, strongly escorted by fighters, raided a power station and railway yards in Northern France. The R.A.F. has been quick to follow up the attack on the great Renault motor works. Aerial photographs taken the following day showed that immense damage was done to the works, which were making tanks, lorries and aeroplane engines for the Germans. A Free French spokesman has issued a warning to French workmen not to work in factories harnessed to the German war supply. An attack on the enemy-occupied French port of St. Nazaire was made by R.A.F. bombers last night. One British plane is missing. An enemy plane was shot down over this country and another by a trawler escorting a shipping convoy. Neither casualties nor damage were suffered by the convoy or its escort. I MASS BURIALS ■ NATIONAL MOURNING ORDER ' IN FRANCE. ■ REPLY TO MARSHAL PETAIN. j VICHY, March 7. „ ’ There were mass burials today in j various l suburbs of Paris of the victims of the R.A.F. raid. National mourning is being observed throughout France. A message from Marshal Petain read at an open-air mass at Boulogne-sur- c Seine, stated: “History will judge the criminal aggression of the former ally who has brought death with the cold- ‘ est resolution to our innocent civilians. There is no law of war and no pretext * to justify such bloody hecatombs.” j Colonel Britton, broadcasting from c London to France, warned that the R.A.F. would again visit France. “We do not want to kill our friends,” he j said. “Keep away from the factories j helping Germany. If you are forced j to work, demand proper raid shelters, j but, better still, keep away. Don’t <• forget that the R.A.F. pilot is your friend. Keep out of his way.” j - S -