1.000 TONS OF BOMBS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 July 1943, Page 3

1.000 TONS OF BOMBS

DROPPED IN NIGHT ATTACK ON COLOGNE WEATHER CLEAR OVER TARGET. MINES LAID IN ENEMY WATERS. LONDON, July 9. The K.A.F. dropped over 1,000 tons of bombs in an attack on Cologne last night. Goebbels was in Cologne yesterday. but the German radio has not said whether lie remained there for the night. The raid was not one of the biggest that Cologne has had. The weather was bad during the journey, but cleared a good deal over the target. There was the usual heavy barrage and night fighters were also active. At least two fighters were shot down by the British air gunners. The night’s operations, which also included mine-laying, cost eight bombers. DORNIERS SHOT DOWN DURING RAID ON BRITAIN. SOME DAMAGE & CASUALTIES IN GREATER LONDON. LONDON, July 9. London this afternoon had its first daylight alert since March. Soon after 5 o’clock ten enemy raiders crossed the south-east coast and some of them headed for the capital, where anti-aircraft defences went into action. Two Dorniers were shot down. One two-engined machine crashed in Kent and blew to pieces, with its crew. A few of the raiders approached the Greater London area, where bombs were dropped. Bombs were also dropped at scattered points in the south-east district, where shops, houses and a large cinema were hit. A film was being shown in the cinema and it is believed the casualties may have been heavy.

“TERROR RAID” ACCORDING TO BERLIN RADIO. (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 9. The Berlin radio says: "In a renewed terror raid last night against residential quarters in the Rhineland, particularly Cologne, British bombers dropped bombs at random from a completely clouded sky. It was Cologne’s third raid during the last eleven nights, and the 119th since the outbreak of war.” FIGHTERS IN ACTION AGAINST AIRFIELD AND OTHER TARGETS. (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 9. An Air Ministry communique states: “Fighters attacked airfields and railway targets in France and north-west Germany. “Fleet Air Arm planes, operating with the Fighter Command, damaged three mine-sweepers off the French coast.”