EXTENSIVE RAIDS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 248, 27 July 1940, Page 5

EXTENSIVE RAIDS

OBJECTIVES IN GERMANY HIT.

OIL DEPOTS AND AERODROMES.

DOCKS AND IMPORTANT CANAL

(United Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, July 26.

An Air Ministry communique states: “Last night Royal Air Force bombers carried out extensive operations over a wide area, the object, as on previous occasions, being to reduce the striking power of the German Air Force by attacking oil supplies, aircraft factories and aerodromes. Thus oil supplies at Bremen, Sterkrade, Bottrop, Castrop, Rauxel, Dortmund and Kamen were set on fire. Aircraft factories at Kassel, Escbwege and Gotha were attacked, together with 14 aerodromes in Holland and Germany.

“Besides these primary targets the Dortmund-Ems Canal, the Hamburg docks, and other military objectives, including blast furnaces and goods yards in the Ruhr, were bombed. “An enemy fighter which attempted to intercept our bombers was shot down.”—British Official Wireless.

RECORD FOR THREE MONTHS.

OVER 1000 ON LARGE SCALE.

DETAILS OF THE OBJECTIVES. (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) LONDON, July 26. Of a total of over 1000 large-scale raids made by the Royal Air Force on Germany and German-occupied countries within the last three months, 161 raids were made on industrial targets, 229 on aerodromes, 258 on military objectives and 275 on communications. Between May 10, • when intensified raids began with the invasion of Holland and Belgium and June 17, when Paris was reached no fewer than, 416 big-scale operations were carried out over Germany and occupied countries, while since that time 517 raids have been directed in a month at enemy main military and industrial centres. The British have made 377 bombing raids on targets in Germany itself between June 1 and July 18.