MORE RAIDS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 5, 17 October 1941, Page 5

MORE RAIDS

GERMAN AND OCCUPIED AREAS. >1 ONE HEINKEL SHOT DOWN. MOTOR-BOAT SET ON FIRE. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 10.5 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 16. An Air Ministry communique says: “Aircraft of the Bomber Command were over western Germany last night. There was no improvement in the weather, but objectives in the Cologne area were attacked and bombs were also dropped on the docks at. Boulogne. “Yesterday afternoon Hudsons of the Coastal Command bombed and machine-gunned docks and shipping at Esjberg (Denmark). Three of the Bomber Command’s planes are missing.” Fighter Command aircraft have been on patrol to-day over Holland, Northern France, and the Channel. Antiaircraft ships, a petrol store and an ofl tank and waggons were attacked. One enemy aircraft was destroyed. One of our fighters is missing.

The Air Ministry News Service adds that two pilots of the Eagle Squadron found a goods train in Northern France and set it on fire with bullets. Then one shot down a low-flying Henschel 126 (German Army co-operation type). Another Eagle pilot “gunned" two oil'tank waggons at the railway station. Mixed forces of 12-gun and four-gun cannon Hurricanes flew low over the coast of Holland. They attacked a petrol store, leaving flames 100 feet high.

A South African pilot noticed a 3000-ton ship being repaired and dived down, riddling the hull with holes.

One Free French pilot shot up a searchlight post and another silenced a gun that was firing at him. South of Flushing a motor-boat was set on fire and on the way home an R.A.F. pilot attacked two anti-aircraft ships. On one ship the Swastika flag was shot from the masthead by Hurricanes.