TURIN BLASTED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 November 1942, Page 3

TURIN BLASTED

MANY FIRES STARTED IN ARMAMENT WORKS ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE DIES AWAY. ALL BRITISH BOMBERS RETURN SAFELY. LONDON, November 19. Last night British home-based bombers made a powerful attack on objectives in the Italian industrial city of Turin, one of the targets being the Fiat works, in which 50,000 employees are engaged in making aero engines and tractors. The attacking aircraft were helped by moonlight and by, the flares they dropped. Many 40001 b. and other bombs were dropped and fires were started which extended right across the town. There was plenty of anti-aircraft fire when tlie bombers opened their attack, but towards the end it died away. All the attacking aircraft returned safely from their 1500-mile round journey, the raid being the fourth made on Italy without loss. A big armament centre, Turin is the site .of Italy’s Royal arsenal, as well as the Fiat, Caproni and Lancia works, great chemical factories, and many blast furnaces and steel works. It is also the centre of Italy’s clothing industry. The Fiat engine works employ 50,000 workers. Turin was last' raided in October. Turin has now been bombed twenty times 1 , the last time by home-based bombers on the night of October 23. Italy has now been bombed 34 times, including 9 since the present offensive opened.

ITALIAN REPORT “DAMAGE TO CIVILIAN * BUILDINGS.” (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) LONDON, November 19. An Italian communique dealing with the R.A.F.’s raid on Turin last night says considerable damage was done to civilian buildings, but fires were soon controlled. Twenty-four persons were killed and 52 injured.