RAIDS ON BRITAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 July 1942, Page 3

RAIDS ON BRITAIN

MORE WIDESPREAD THAN FOR SOME TIME TEN ENEMY BOMBERS DESTROYED EIGHT OVER THE UNITED KINGDOM. R.A.F. DAY & NIGHT ATTACKS. LONDON, July 28. Last night German raids in Britain were widespread and on a larger scale than for some time. Eight enemy planes were shot down and a ninth was destroyed over Holland. A German bomber was destroyed this morning on the coast of Cornwall. Fires and damage were caused in the Birmingham area, where there was a number of casualties. Some damage was done elsewhere in the Midlands and the eastern counties as well as in Greater London, where some damage was caused by incendiaries. Londoners once again heard the capital’s guns roaring into action. Single aircraft of the Bomber Command attacked targets in Germany today during daylight. During the night fighters over Occupied France attacked railways carrying war materials to Germany and big industrial areas at Lille. GERMANS WARNED REICH WILL BE BOMBED FROM END TO END. BROADCAST BY AIR MARSHAL HARRIS. LONDON, July 28. A warning to the people of Germany of what they could expect from R.A.F. and American raids was given by Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, chief of the R.A.F. Bomber Command, in a broadcast in German. He said British and American planes were going to bomb Germany from end to end, every day and every night rain, hail or snow. One American factory, he said, was completing every two hours a four-engined bomber capable of carrying four tons of explosives to any part of the Reich. There was only one way for the German people to avoid the tremendous raids and that was to end the war by overthrowing the Nazis and making peace.

DAMAGE IN HAMBURG AND MANY CASUALTIES. RESULTS OF BRITISH ATTACK ADMITTED. LONDON, July 28. /The damage caused by the R.A.F. raid on Hamburg can be judged from the fact that the Germans admit that they dropped 120,000 incendiaries in the biggest fire raid on London. Yet we dropped 175,000 incendiaries on Hamburg, which is about one-fifth the size of London. The Rome radio declared that casualties in Hamburg were very high. The raid was one of the heaviest experienced by Germany. The Paris radio said that the raid may be considered a spectacular success for the British.