AGAIN BOMBED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 22, 6 November 1940, Page 5

AGAIN BOMBED.

ENEMY INVASION PORTS. FIRES AT KIEL DOCKYARD. LONDON, November 5.Royal Air Force raids last night were not on a heavy scale, because of bad weather. The invasion ports and other objectives in France were attacked. Adverse weather over the . greater part of Germany severely restricted Sunday night’s operations by aircraft of the Bomber Command. Early yesterday morning conditions showed some improvement and an attack was launched,. states an Air Ministry bulletin, against the naval dockyards at Kiel, which were heavily bombed for nearly 70 minutes by relays of aircraft.

The first raider reached the target area shortly after 4 o’clock yesterday morning and started fires in the dockyard which were burning strongly when the second wave of the attack arrived later. Bombing through gaps in the. clouds, the new arrivals scored repeated hits with heavy-calibro bombs in the dock area and started two large fires which gave off great clouds of black smoke. The pilot of one heavy bomber planted a stick of heavy bombs accurately across the dockyard. Heavy fire from the powerful ground batteries greeted each attack.