NO RESPITE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1943, Page 3

NO RESPITE

FOR ENEMY-OCCUPIED EUROPE SUSTAINED ALLIED AIR ATTACKS. TANKER & TRAWLERS HIT NEAR GERMANY. LONDON, May 23. Allied planes based in Britain are keeping up the attack on enemy-occupied Europe. Ventura bombers attacked industrial objectives at Zeebrugge, in Belgium. The bomb-aimers were on the lookout for vital parts of a steel works. The bombers were escorted by Spitfires. All the planes returned. An enemy convoy near Guernsey was attacked and a tanker and armed trawlers were hit. Two other ships were raked with gunfire. Since the beginning of 1943 at least 24 German supply ships have been hit by the Coastal Command's torpedo aircraft, striking at one of the enemy’s most vital lines of communication, states the Air Ministry news service. HIT & RUN RAIDS ON ENGLISH COAST TOWNS. DEATH ROLL MAY BE HEAVY. LONDON, May 23. The Germans lost three more planes in hit and run raids, against south and south-east coast towns of England today. It is feared the death roll may be heavy, as many hotels, as well as churches, houses and shops were hit. Rescue squads arc still searching the debris for victims.

AMERICAN GENERAL OBSERVATION DURING FORTRESS RAID. COMBAT CREWS PRAISED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 22. Major-General Follett Bradley, In-spector-General of the United States Air Force, went to Wilhelmshaven yesterday in one of the raiding Flying Fortresses, and he returned full of praise for the spirit and morale of the combat crews. General Bradley, whose purpose was to observe tactics in highaltitude day-time precision bombing, said, “The war will be brought to a speedy conclusion when adequate forces are available similarly to hit Germany in six or eight places simultaneously.” DAYLIGHT ATTACKS ' SEVEN TRAINS DAMAGED BY CANADIANS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) RUGBY, May 23. Early this afternoon a strong force of Allied bombers roared directly over Deal, in Kent, heading seaward toward the Belgian and French coasts, states an agency message. Within about half an rour they were heard and seen returning by the same route. As no bomb crashes or explosions were heard, it is assumed that the afternoon's sweep had gone much further inland than the coastline.

Mustangs of a Canadian squadron of the Army Co-operation Command, in very bad weather, attacked seven trains in France yesterday afternoon. Large clouds of steam were seen to follow hits on five locomotives. Three attacks were also made on a large goods train, which was left with its engine emitting billows of smoke and steam.