“BOMB TERROR”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1943, Page 4

“BOMB TERROR”

NAZI REPORT ON ATTACK ON MUNICH HITS ON “HOSPITALS, CHURCHES & SCHOOLS.” HEAVY DAMAGE ADMITTED (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, September 7. A German communique admits that heavy damage was done in the R.A.F. raid on Munich. The communique says: “The British bomb terror was directed last night against the population of Munich. High explosives and incendiary bombs destroyed many houses and hit hospitals, churches and schools. The German air defences prevented the raiders from making a concentrated attack against the town. They partly jettisoned their bombs over a number of small localities and villages.” . The communique adds: “Last night the Luftwaffe bombed congested enemy air bases in the Cambridge area.” A R.A.F. reconnaissance pilot reported that Mannheim and Ludwigshafen were still burning this morning, nearly 36 hours after the R.A.F. raid on Sunday night. TWO RAIDERS SHOT DOWN OVER SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND. (British Official Wireless'.) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, September 7. For days now hardly an hour has gone by without the sight of Allied bombers and fighters flying across the Channel. People on the South Coast say life is much noisier for them than in the Battle of Britain. London had a brief alert during the night, when German aircraft came over the Thames Estuary and parts cf South-East England. Little damage was done. Two raiders were shot down.