DOUBLE BLOW STRUCK AT NAZI INDUSTRY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 91, 18 April 1941, Page 8

DOUBLE BLOW STRUCK AT NAZI INDUSTRY.

FIVE-HOVR BOMBING

, \ Bremen Again Pounded By j Air Force Bombers. ; Hriiisli Olliciiil Win-less. ' ißci-il. 1.. - i0 p.m.) KI'CBY. April 17. ! ! 15y ;ii taekiiiLT Bremen last night niri'i'HL't oL' I lie Bomber (.'oniniHiid , struck a double blow iigiiinst (ienuan I industry and against the resources .which help t<> sustain I hi , enemy's commerce raiders in the Atlantic, ( says an Air Ministry news service. Shipyards, which in peacetime are used 11> build great liners like the; ' Bremen were the focus. oL' the attack, while other squadrons concentrated on the industrial centre. The. Bremen attack lasted for over ' five hours. It was not a night when results of bombing could lie. observed in detail, but tin> British pilots were able ' to L r et some idea of the damage they 1 were doing by watching the spreading • patches of suffused red ill the dark veil ' which covered the city. Steadily and methodically they began tires, bombed them and saw they were stretching outwards In?fore they turned for home to make again a journey ; through clouds which hung over the North Sea. . Further details of yo«terday\= and last . night's R.A.F. raids on < iermany are given in an Air Ministry communique which states: "The weight of last night's attack by aircraft of the Bomber Command [ fell on a number of North German towns but mainly on Bremen. Though the haze made'it difficult to observe tho full effects of the bombing, lires could be ' seen spreading in many parts of Bremen. Wilhclmshaveii, Cuxhaven and Weser- ' nuiiide were among the other objectives ' attacked. ( "Aircraft of the Coastal Command bombed the dock*; at Brest during tiie ■ night. In the course of widespread operations in the daylight yesterday a '. formation of Blenheim aircraft of the ■ Bomber Command attacked the Island of Heligoland. Other Blenheims escorted by fighters attacked the aerodrome at Berck sur Mer in Northern France and , did considerable damage. From all these operations one aircraft of the Bomber \ Command and three of the Fighter Com- , mand are missing. One fighter pilot i* \ safe. An aircraft of the Coastal Comr mand ie miseing from the patrol yester--1 day.