R.A.F. ENDS LULL IN WEST Attack On Bordeaux

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 80, 28 December 1940, Page 9

R.A.F. ENDS LULL IN WEST Attack On Bordeaux

STILL NO BOMBING BY GERMANS’ Britons Watch On Channel • LONDON, December 27. In the air over Britain the Christmas lull continues. Last night, for the third night running, there was no enemy air activity, the longest spell without raids since the beginning of September. The only activity yesterday was a raid by a single machine on the Isle of Sheppey, in the Thames, but the attack was fruitless. British machines raided Bordeaux and aerodromes in enemy-occupied territory. . These were the first bombing operations carried out by the Royal Air Force since the night of December 23-24.

LONDON, December 26. Any olUeial or unofficial understanding regarding a Christmas truce has been emphatically denied in London. Christmas brought perfect invasion” weather and the Strait o Dover was heavily armed, while the guards lining the Channel coast were doubled against the possibility of a German thrust through a blanket or fog covering a calm sea. Picked troops armed with Bren guns and other automatic weapons patro led the beaches and watched every cleft and fissure. Guards held up and searched coastal traffic at barricades and compelled the drivers and passengers, whether civilian or military, to produce their identity. cards. . The Germans have been trying, particularly in the United States to get a reputation for virtue out of their : stention from bombing on Christmas Day, but the chairman of the 10rei o a Affairs Committee of the United States House of Representatives, Senator Bloom, is not impressed. He said today: “A man or a nation cannot be devoutly religious on one day of the year and committing crimes of the worst sort during the 364 other days. You cannot trust a criminal or a gangster.”