FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21211, 6 September 1940, Page 5

FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS

ATTACKS ON CONTINENT MUCH DAMAGE CAUSED (Official Wireless) (Received Sept. 6, 1 p.m.* RUGBY, Sept. 5 An Air Ministry communique states: Last night Royal Air Force bombers penetrated enemy territory as far as Stettin, on the Baltic, where a successful attack on a synthetic oil plant was carried out. Other forces of our bombers attacked military objectives concealed in the Hartz mountains, the Gruenwald Forest and the Black Forest. Many fires and explosions followed these attacks. Our aircraft also bombed a power station and an aircraft factory at Berlin. Other objectives last night included oil stocks at Magdeburg, a goods yard at Naremburg, south of Bremen, and several aerodromes in enemy-occupied France and Belgium. Aircraft of the Coastal Command attacked oil tanks at Cherbourg and the docks at Terneuzen. From these widespread operations two of our aircraft have not returned. One crashed on landing. Nazis Use Dutch as Shield Dutch circles in London have released a statement from a neutral who has returned from a visit to Germany and Holland, in which he says that the majority of Holland’s fire-engines have been requisitioned for service in the Ruhr to fight fires resulting from Royal Air Force raids. The Royal Air Force bombed th-2 Schipol airport out of existence. The Germans moved the engines, over-haulshop and other plant into the heart of Amsterdam, thus using Dutch citizens as a shield. The Co-ordinator of Defence Production in the United States, Mr W. S. Knudsen, has resigned the presidency of and severed all connections with General Motors Corporation in view of prospective defence contracts.