LARGE FIRES IN MUNICH

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23749, 22 September 1942, Page 5

LARGE FIRES IN MUNICH

RAID ON SATURDAY NIGHT LONDON, Sept. ». The Bomber Command on Saturday night sent two separate forces to Germany. One struck at the Saar Valley and the other, composed entirely of four-engined bombers, went to Munich, and they left large ‘fires burning in the industrial quarters of the city. Munich is an important railway centre, with locomotive and waggon repair shops. It also has many factories in full war production, notably the large B.M.W. engineering and motor works. Submarirfte and aeroplane engines, tanks, armoured cars, hand-grenade , and motor tyres are among the essential products which Munich now turns out. The attack on Munich was concentrated into a little more than half an hour. The targets were clearly visible and the crews saw the railway station, the curves of the river, and the "Brown House,” and other administrative buildings of the Nazi Party over which the aircraft dropped their heavy high explosive and incendiary bombs. The crews were a hundred miles or more on their homeward journey before they lost sight of the glow of the Munich fires. The bombers sent to the Saar also did good work, and one Wellington shot down a Focke Wulf 100 in flames over the Channel. Saturday night's intruder patrols over the occupied territory included attacks on airfields from which German bombers are able to raid Britain and Allied shipping, says the Air Ministry News Service. In the attacks on railways 10 locomotives came under fire. Eight of them were targets for one Boston aircraft of a Canadian squadron. A six-figure total of mines has been laid in enemy waters by British aircraft since the outbreak of war. This work is dealt with in a joint Admiralty and Air Ministry communique which says that mines have been laid in waters as widely separated as the Kiel Canal and the Atlantic coast of France. There is good reason to believe that for every ship known to have been sunk—and this total is not a small one—at least one other has been sunk without information reaching Britain.

RAIDS ON GREECE AND SICILY

LONDON, Sept. 20. An Italian communique says: "Enemy aeroplanes last nia;ht raided Navarino, in south-wert Peloponnesus, and also Catania and L ruin, in Sk'i.'.v. Two Now Zealanders who paradin'-1 from an aeroplane which was shot down over Sicily were taken prisoner.’