CONTINUOUS RAIDS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 6, 18 October 1940, Page 5

CONTINUOUS RAIDS.

ENEMY BASES BOMBED. ROYAL AIR FORCE BUSY. LONDON, October 17. Targets for the Royal Air Force last night included naval bases in Germany and German-occupied territory. Further blows were also struck at oil towns in central Germany. Heavy bomber squadrons struck .at many other targets. These included aluminium factories, docks, railways, and aerodromes. The raid on Kiel was an almost continuous series of attacks, lasting for four hours, in which tons of high explosive bombs were dropped on the dockyards. Direct hits were scored on the jetty of the torpedo harbour, and also on the Marine Academy. The Deutschewerke shipbuilding yard and dockyards south-east of the main jetty were repeatedly straddled, and nine heavy .bombs burst along the western border the Germania yard. One salvo apparently struck a fuel storage point, and started a huge fire, which lit up targets for further attackers.

.Other raiders struck deeply into Germany and bombed important oil refineries and storage tanks at Magdeburg. Gelsenkirchen and Salzbergen, and at more than 20 different railway centres. Other objectives included targets at Grevenbroich, Cologne, Sclioenebeck, Neuhaldensleben, Luenen, and Duesseldorf, and also the docks at Hamburg and Duisburg. A raider directly hit a supply train near Llenen. Fires broke out in the railway yards at Duesseldorf and Neuss. . /

Raiders on Antwerp early this morning hit warehouses and railways.

[■ The effect of the British raids is indicated •in an announdement by the Berlin radio that in future certain radio stations will not be operating after dark. Listeners were advised to tune in in the evenings to stations in eastern Germany. Hudsons of the Coastal Command were active on the Dutch coast. One pilot made an effective dive-bombing attack on the inner harbour at Willemsoord. Another Hudson glided 7000 feet to bomb enemy destroyers off Texel.

A Heinkel float-aeroplane was met head-on in the English Channel by a Coastal Command Blenheim fighter. The Heinkel dived into the sea and sank after two bursts of machine-gun fire.

The Official German News Agency says that the gradual, voluntary evacuation of children from large towns threatened by air raids, such os Berlin and Hamburg is not a result of any danger from British air attacks, which do not necessitate action, but is caused by the bad effect on the health of young children of frequent interruption of their sleep. A German communique says that the Royal Air Force continues indiscriminate bombing against non-military objectives. Houses and farms were hit in central and western Germany, and civilian casualties were caused.