OVER ENEMY LAND

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 39, 26 November 1940, Page 5

OVER ENEMY LAND

MANY TARGETS BOMBED.

FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS.

INDUSTRIAL PLANTS SUFFER

(United Press Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) LONDON, November 25. The Air Ministry communique states: “Early on Sunday morning aircraft of the Coastal Command attacked the aerodrome at Christiansand. Other aircraft attacked the harbour at the Hook of Holland. The Fleet Air Arm, operating with the Coastal Command, bombed the dock at Boulogne.

“Last night the Bomber Command again concentrated on attacks on shipyards and industrial plants at Hamburg. Many fires and explosions followed. The bombing of other targets last night included the Altona gasworks, Wilhelmsliaven docks, chemical factory at Harburg-Wilhelmsburg, part of Boulogne, the Den Helder dockyard, anti-aircraft and searchlight positions and enemy aerodrome and seaplane bases. One of our aircraft is missing. —British Official Wireless.

INVASION PORTS BOMBED.

HEAVY RAID AGAINST TURIN. INCENDIARIES AT BERLIN. LONDON, November. 24. The Royal Air Force again heavily attacked the French invasion ports tonight. Calais, Boulogne, and Cape Oris Nez bore the brunt of the attack, and explosions were frequently heard from the Kent coast.

While the Italian Air Force was suffering heavy defeats oyer the English Channel, in the Western Desert, Greece, and Albania, British bombers last night carried out a successful attack on aircraft works at Turin. It is from there that the Italians get their replacement aeroplanes, but, after last night’s raids, the factories will certainly not be working full time. The attack was made shortly before midnight. Some of the "British, ’planes raided the Royal Arsenal, which was severely damaged by fires and exposi ons.

The first arrivals dropped incendiary bombs to light up the target. Some of the bombers attacked the steel works, while others concentrated on tho Fiat works.

British bombers wore over Berlin before 8 o’clock last' night. Thousands of incendiaries were dropped on a big railway yard-and several large fires were started in a* goods yard. Attacks were made on the Krupps munition works at Essen, and fires broke out in the centre of the great arsenal.

On the way to Germany one of the British bombers was attacked over the North Sea by three Junkers 88 aeroplanes. It kept up a running fight which lasted for 2.0 minutes. The British pilot said he was forced to lose altitude, but he kept up the attack, with the result that one German aeroplane was shot down into the sea and the other two decided they had had enough and flew away.

' GERMAN COMMUNIQUE.

DENIAL OF BRITISH REPORT NO BOBBING OF BERLIN. (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, November 25. The German communique mentions air attacks on Battersea and Southwark, and objectives on the west and south coasts. v , The British dropped a few bombs in northern Germany with no appreciable results. The communique adds that the British announcement that the Berlin railway stations were plastered with bombs on Saturday night is false. No enemy plane was over the Capital that night.