DIRECT HITS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 September 1942, Page 3

DIRECT HITS

ON GESTAPO BUILDING IN OSLO SCORED BY BRITISH LIGHT BOMBERS. QUISLING MEETING BROKEN UP. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 26. An R.A.F. attack on Oslo, the Norwegian capital, yesterday is officially announced by the Air Ministry. During a rally of National Socialists yesterday afternoon, four bombers attacked the Nazi headquarters in the city. At the time of the a meeting of party leaders was being held nearby. Bombs were dropped from about 1000 feet and hits were seen on the Gestapo building. One of our aircraft is missing, but the others returned to safety. A German allegation that three of the attacking bombers were shot down confirms the effect of the attack. The Ministry’s news service says that the aircraft were “Mosquitoes.” This is the first time (his new twinengined light bomber has been mentioned on operational duties. There was brilliant sunshine over the Norwegian capital during the attack. A flight of Focke Wulf 190 s attacked them a few miles from Oslo, when the plane mentioned was lost. The remaining three aircraft bombed from a low level and saw their bombs strike the Gestapo building. An Oslo agency message states that the bombers reached Oslo unobserved and the sirens sounded only when explosions rocked the university building where the Quisling meeting was taking place. Major Quisling, with his bodyguard and the audience, took to the collars. The first alarm was at 5 p.m„ and another sounded just under an hour later ruining the arrangements for a big parade of his followers before Quisling, which was timed for 6.30 p.m.