FOUR BOMBS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 November 1943, Page 3

FOUR BOMBS

DROPPED ON VATICAN CITY GERMANS ALLEGE ALLIED ATTACK. RECENT WARNING RECALLED. (By Telegraph—-Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, November 6. The German overseas news service declares that Allied aircraft attacked the Vatican City at 9 p.m. last night, causing considerable damage. Four large bombs fell within 100 yards of St. Peter’s and the famous Virgule mosaic workshops in the Vatican were destroyed. The Vatican City newspaper “Osservatore Romano” reported that a single plane at 8.30 p.m. flew over the city and dropped four bombs. The German-controlled Rome radio said that the holy city of Christianity which was protected by German^ troops from any possibility of violation, was hit by four heavy bombs. The Pope was in his private study in the Apostolic Palace during the bombing. Today he inspected the bomb damage. A great throng in St. Peter’s acclaimed him.

Allied planes recently dropped leaflets over Rome warning the Italians that the Germans in order to lend plausibility to their lying statements might themselves arrange to bomb the Vatican. The leaflets added: “We leave i" to your intelligence to decide whether we are likely to waste our efforts on targets whose destruction is uselessfor our purpose.”