DAYLIGHT ATTACK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1942, Page 3

DAYLIGHT ATTACK

ON BOULOGNE DOCKS MADE BY R.A.F. BOMBERS & ESCORT. FEW ENEMY FIGHTERS SEEN. LONDON. April 1. A small force of British bombers, with an. escort of fighters, made a daylight attack on the Boulogne docks this afternoon. Very few enemy fighters were seen. We lost one bomber. Two members of the crew are safe, though wounded. RAID ON GIBRALTAR. Enemy aircraft dropped bombs on Gibraltar early today. There are no reports of any damage or casualties. An agency message states that the raiders were promptly engaged by the anti-aircraft defences. The alert lasted half an hour. MOST EFFECTIVE THE BOMBING OF LUBECK. TOWN SERIOUSLY DAMAGED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 31. From a number of sources reports have reached Britain showing that the R.A.F.’s raid on the important Baltic port of Lubeck on Saturday night was extremely successful. The Berlin' correspondent of the Swiss newspaper “Neue Zuercher Zeitung” says the R.A.F. raid was the most severe of the war. The loss of life was considerable, but the damage to industrial and residential quarters was even more serious and the centre of the town suffered so badly that many of the population have had to be evacuated. “The Times” says: “The attack delivered by the R.A.F. on Lubeck seems to have been one of the most effective in the offensive which has been rapidly growing in strength and persistence. The attack is only one item in a programme of operations which will be continual and intensive whenever the weather permits.