’DROMES BOMBED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 186, 21 May 1941, Page 6

’DROMES BOMBED

GERMAN DEPOTS IN GREECE. r.a.f. active in syria; BENGHAZI AGAIN ATTACKED.

(United i Press Association—Copyright 9 (Rec, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, May .20. Royal Air Force counter-measures to the latest Nazi efforts in the Eastern Mediterranean are described in an R.A.F. Middle East communique, ■which states :“In Iraq and Syria, -aircraft of the! R.A.F. bombed military targets in and around A 1 Falluja yesterday prior to the entry of our troops into the ; town. Our troops also attacked Palmyra aerodrome,: in Syria, where German machines were machinegunned and bombed. . 1 ‘During Sunday night heavy raids were made on German-occupied aerodromes in Greece. Three very violent explosions and a number of fires were caused at Hassani. At Eleusis, one building received a direct hit and several fires were started. “In 'the Western Desert, R.A.F. bomber and fighter aircraft carried out a series of attacks on enemy transport and mechanised units. A number of these vehicles were burned and many others made unserviceable .by being ditched at the roadside. Some of the vehicles contained; troops. In a raid carried out on Benghazi on Monday, no fewer than 28 explosions were caused in buildings on the mole.

“From all these operations three of onr aircraft are missing.”

GERMANS AT DAMASCUS.

AEROPLANE REPAIR SHOP. FIFTY PLANES CROSS SYRIA. (Rec, 1.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 20. It is reported from Cairo that about 50 German planes have hitherto travel--t sed Syria to Iraq. _ According to the Independent French Agency the Germans are erecting. a radio station and aeroplanes repair shop at Damascus. Fifty officers and non-commissioned officers are under close arrest owing to their pro-British tendencies, *