FIRES STARTED

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21217, 13 September 1940, Page 5

FIRES STARTED

DAMAGE ON CONTINENT SUPPLY SHIPS SUNK GERMAN TOWNS BOMBED (Official Wireless) (Received Sept. 13, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 12 Perhaps the most widespread attack of the war so far on military objectives in Germany and Germanoccupied territory were carried out last night by the Royal Air Force, an Air Ministry communique states. Coastal Command aircraft yesterday attacked an enemy convoy off Dunkirk, sinking one enemy supply ship. Another force of Coastal Command aircraft, operating with the Fleet Air Arm, attacked a convoy off Cap Gris Nez, hitting one enemy supply ship, which was left burning, and seriously damaging another. In the course of this attack our aircraft encountered a force of enemy fighters and bombers, three of which were destroyed and others damaged. Three of our aircraft were lost. Last night strong forces of bomber aircraft carried out attacks on railway stations, goods yards and an aerodrome at Berlin. Docks and shipyards at Hamburg, Bremen and Wilhelmshafen, an oil plant at Monheim, an explosives factory at Frankfurt, goods yards at Hamm, Cologne, Coblenz, Mannheim and Ehrang, a railway junction at Namur, and enemy aerodromes in Germany and Holland were also attacked. Other forces of bombers attacked barge concentrations, docks and shipping at Ostend, Flushing, Calais and Boulogne. Three of our aircraft did not return. Czech Airmen Participate The Air Ministry news service stated that the Czech bomber squadron formed in England raided enemy territory for the first time when it participated in a successful attack on a railway goods yard at Brussels.

JEWS AND ARABS

SYMPATHY IN SUFFERING ANGER AGAINST ITALIANS EFFECT OF RAID ON TEL-AVIV (Omcial Wireless) ” ' (Received Sept. 13, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 12 The casualties from the Italian raid on Tel-Aviv totalled 228, of whom 104, including 96 Jews, seven Arabs and one Australian, were killed, and the remainder seriously wounded. The raid has done nothing to lower the exceptionally high morale of the Jewish population, and the Arab reaction, both in Jaffa and its neighbourhood, is one of warm sympathy with the Jewish sufferers and intense anger against the Italians. Pamphlets which the Italians dropped among the Arab population have been treated with scorn. Today the Mayor and members of the Municipal Council of Jaffa, all of them Arabs, attended a mass funeral of the Jewish victims of the raid.

UTTERLY USELESS

SHIPS SUNK OR DAMAGED DEVASTATION AT TOBRUK WORK OF BRITISH AIRMEN (United Press Asn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Sept. 13, 1 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 12 The Times says the combined operations of the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm have rendered Tobruk utterly useless for supplying the Italian troops, submarines and warships. The harbour has been cleared of its crowded shipping, including five submarines, of which at least one was sunk.

The harbour is now li/.ered with ships sunk or lying drunkenly on their sides.

ITALIAN LOSSES

177 AIRCRAFT DESTROYED RAIDS IN MIDDLE EAST AERODROMES EVACUATED (United Mess Asn.— Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Sept. 12 Since Italy entered the war 177 of her aircraft have been destroyed by the Royal Air Force and probably 90 more have been lost, states the British Broadcasting Corporation observer in the Middle East. Over 600 tons of bombs have been dropped by the Royal Air Force in 250 raids in the Middle East. The Italians have been forced to withdraw from some of their desert aerodromes.

EXPORTS AND IMPORTS

BANK BILL PASSED (United Press Asn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 The Senate passed the 500,000,000 dollars Export and Import Bank Bill.