CONTINUOUS TOLL OF ENEMY SHIPPING

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 169, 19 July 1941, Page 7

CONTINUOUS TOLL OF ENEMY SHIPPING

U.F. OPERATIONS

"Steadily Destroying Nazi Industrial Power 99

British Official Wireless.

Rec. 12.30 p.m,

RUGBY, July 18.

aES? uous a ' r assaults on enemy snipping are the keynote of official message s issued to-night. An Air Ministry communique states that, rfP'te unfavourable weather over ba J? .of Dover to-day, the continued to harass enemy snipping off the French coast. An enemy supply ship of about ww tons, escorted by patrol vessels and fighters, was attacked by British bombers off Dunkirk. Several direct nits on the ship were obtained. A r ® connaissance showed that a ™P of , corresponding tonnage was Si nd near Dunkirk. The fighters ow vl escort ed the British bombers one enemy fighter. Two oombers and one fighter are missing. Air Ministry's news service v w ? s . a Beaufort aircraft which scored a hit on a vessel anchored in amn^i! BSt - NaZaire. As he Jvomi the target the pilot saw k'hips lying in the roads proby a fierce anti-aircraft baran j .. , H ® selected a 4000-ton vessel S? m ov e u. beneath a curtain of flak S his attack from mast high, her ar P' y on to the ship from The Beaufort's crew on 4v? stick of bombs burst directly of w a P ' Another fell just short A.s the aircraft flew away out a^L gU i?," e , r °P ene d fire and shot a searchlight. Rotterdam Devastation the l i^ truction or damaging by 1500£ A £; °" Jul >- 16 of niarly Rotterdam • of enemy Shipping at most is t . not on ly by far the war air attack of the an imnntH * n ® in port ' but is also , part of a carefully Getmjm ?« p of attack on the »a tro n J an s port astern. Rail and territaro?? Ir } German-occupied andtheß A P ga J! e< ? as a sin S le unit, ftptay h k' mg b 7 heay y and centra i- ng of vita * railway ofthe ianH ♦ mcreasing dislocation the *; ra nsport system, caused strain hv rplo f e f k relief from the which rtL d * V, to coastal shipping, coasts anS PF' atta cks round the dam is hi 1 ? the harbours. Rotterharbour far the most important and thl J5 north-western Europe and frftm ti nci^ al port for traffic to nearlv 7n Ruhr, which produces steel Tv,!; rS e L, cent of Germany's try "anrt +? g ly bombing of indussteadihTH< t T» ans P ort is slowly and ®ndS^ p n 0 g wS e heart ° f Ger " Pllhter.B abers' Fine Work hduded at'£nt off i nsive last ni ®ht *rr,?M Cks b y a number of aerc »dromes tuJ} enemy-occupied out in Anffl- Pilots were sent TwooftwJ. * built Hav oc aircraft. ftthlr ' one over Holland and °Y er . Fran ce, had the starting fires they get af ter leaving the tarstarted tbat light, bombs which became left the area minutes after he thi ftf r^rome in Frajjce was reported v?} e other Pilot, who fire which ™~£l S i. bomb s started a °Ut at sea be seen 40 miles nature hv operations of this quent!v o l g^ter , aircraft were fre--01 rlVi( ne du ring the period nir ? of British towns MtefaS t ° rt b i ec L of th e operations r. he interception and «turn bom bers on eturn ir—the raids.