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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1942, Page 3

FROM LOW LEVEL

ATTACK ON U-BOAT BASF, IN BALTIC ENEMY SHIPS HIT OFF DUTCH COAST. I GERMAN RAIDING PLANE DESTROYED. LONDON, September 24. Germans heard the drone of bombers again last night when the Ji.A.F. resumed its offensive on north and northwest Germany. Some of Britain’s biggest bombers flew through an. electrical storm and bombed the Baltic port of Flensburg. The planes flew down to hundreds of feet above the target Io make sure of hilling the submarinebuilding yards. Coastal Command aircraft were also busy. Dutch pilots spotted-a Nazi convoy off the coast of Holland. They hit three medium-sized merchant ships. Altogether, ten aircraft are missing. Of three enemy bombers which approached Britain last night, one was shot down before it reached the coast. The others dropped bombs, which did slight damage and caused a few casualties.

This afternoon an enemy plane bombed and machine-gunned a village on the south-east coast. A few bungalows were wrecked. It is revealed that Rye, in Sussex, one of the historic Cinque Ports, was the place attacked on Tuesday, when bombs damaged a cinema, a school and two churches. Five people were killed.

BOMBS & WORDS NAZIS TALK OF “NUISANCE" RAID. (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 24. The’Berlin radio says: “The R.A.F. last night carried out a nuisance raid on a northern coastal area. Bombs caused some damage and destruction in buildings in residential areas. “The Luftwaffe raided important war objectives in a town in eastern England.” -