FIRES STARTED

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21210, 5 September 1940, Page 7

FIRES STARTED

CONCEALED TARGETS HIT RAIDS ON CONTINENT WIDESPREAD DAMAGE (Official Wireless) (Received Sept. 5, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 4 Royal Air Force bombers made further extensive raids on new targets in Germany last night, from which all the aircraft returned. An Air Ministry communique, describing these raids, stated: Royal Air Force bombers attacked military objectives concealed in German forests in the Harts mountains and in the Gruenwald forests, north of Berlin. Many fires were started, which later caused explosions. Other aircraft carried out reconnaissances over an area of the Black Forest, east of Baden, where fires had been started by our bombers on the previous night. Many of these were still blazing. Other forces of Royal Air Force bombers attacked electric power stations, lighting installations and an armament factory in Berlin, oil storage tanks at Magdeburg, goods yards at Hamm and Schwerte, a blast furnace at Merzig, and several Dutch and Gerrhan aerodromes. Aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm, operating with the Coastal Command, attacked barge concentrations in the Beveland Canal, at Terneuzen, in the mouth of the Scheldt. Forces of the Coastal Command aircraft attacked the docks at Ostend. All our aircraft returned.