IN TARGET AREAS"

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 171, 21 July 1943, Page 3

IN TARGET AREAS"

ROME PHOTOGRAPHS

Marshalling Yards And Airfield Wreckage X.Z. Press Association—Copyright Rec. 11 a.m. LONDON, July 20. Photographs of damage caused by yesterday's air raid on Rome show that the Littorio railway marshalling yards were completely destroyed and that the locomotive repair shops were shattered. Bomb hits are shown over a width of 400 yards and a length of two miles along the railway in the Littorio -yards. The correspondent of the British United Press in Cairo says the photographs also show that all bombs fell within the target areas. Several hangars in the Ciampino aerodrome were blown to pieces or burnt out. and large numbers of planes grounded

Cardinal Fossatti.

on the airfield were damaged by bombs or by fires. All traffic through the Loureneo marshalling yards has been halted at least temporarily. The raid was an all-American effort and it is stated in Cairo that only one United States airman lost his life during the raid over Rome. Pope's Painful Trial Rome radio stated that immediately after the bombing the Pope decided to suspend for some days all but his most urgent audiences. He received the Archbishop of Turin, Cardinal Fossatti, who reported on the huge damage done to churches. The Pope tokl Cardinal Fossatti that the bombing of Rome was one of the most painful trials of his life. According to Berlin radio the Pope, while visiting bombed areas in Rome yesterday, distributed GO,OOO lire among people who had been bombed out of their homes. Berlin radio says that since last evening delayed-action bombs have been exploding in Rome and whole quarters of the city had to be evacuated last night. Processions of people with baggage moved into the inner town. Many quarters of the city are without water. Rome radio, in a broadcast this morning, stated: "Rome was attacked with the impetus worthy of a wild beast." The radio gave a list of further reports of damage and alleged that several United States planes machine-gunned civilians in Prenestino Square, causing heavy casualties. MONUMENTS SPARED Attacks Made On Centres Of War Industry DEATH KOIjIJ REPORTED HIGH Rec. 10.30 a.m. LONDON, July 20. In the centre of Rome all wellknown streets, monuments and ancient buildings and ruins known to tourists were spared in the air raid on Rome, according to the Stockholm newspaper Dagens Nyheter's Rome correspondent. The attack ' was centred on the San Lorenzo and Tiburtina districts, which were hard hit and are still burning. The dead are still being removed I from the debris. The death roll is reported to be high. Taxis, lorries and even motor cycles are being used to carry the wounded. 1 The British United Press corre-! spondent, Richard MacMillan, who j accompanied the raid, said: "No air-; craft flew over the Vatican during i the whole of the raid. The part of I the marshalling yards we were to! bomb was pretty well covered with i smoke and dust, but .we could tell j where they lay because of surround- j ing unobscured targets. "A member of the crew as we ( turned from the target said: 'I saw | what the Germans did to Louvain; and I went through the bombing of London. This sort of evens things up.'" ANOTHER GENERAL Rec. noon. LONDON, July 20. General Porcinari, commander of the 54th Napoli Division, has been captured. This is the fourth Italian divisional commander captured by the Allies in Sicily.