A WIDE AREA.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 304, 1 October 1940, Page 5

A WIDE AREA.

GERMANY HARD HIT. FEELING THE R.A.F. MIGHT. (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, September 30. Last night’s attacks on rail communications and centres in Germany by the Royal Air Force were spread over a wide area.

The railways,.at Ehrang, Mannheim. Soest and Koblenz were bombed and fires started in goods junctions at Cologne, Osnabruck and Hamm, where sticks of heav.y-calibre bombs fell along one side of the goods yard, causing two separate fires which quickly merged into one big blaze. The oil plant at Hanover was attacked shortly before 11 p.m. A large fire in the target area was still burning 20 minutes after the last aircraft had left the outskirts of the city. Explosions which continued for some time marked the attack on a factory near Hanover. At Karaen, ■ near Dortmund, another factory was bombed and set on fire. Raiders operating over Holland attacked the great Fokker aircraft factory near Amsterdam. The factory—now commandeered by the German invaders—is situated in the dock area. | It was heavily bombed and fires and explosions wei’e seen to break out among the factory buildings and docks lying to the south. The aerodromes at Gifhorn, Dessau, Evere, Aschersleben and Schiphol were also subjected to night attacks by heavy bombers. At Schiphol, the main airport of Amsterdam, sticks of bombs burst across the illuminated flare path, and at Aschersleben low-lying, clouds were lit up by the glow of a great fire started on the aerodrome.—British Official Wireless