INCREASED DAMAGE IN KIEL

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 199, 20 May 1941, Page 7

INCREASED DAMAGE IN KIEL

All R.A.F. Bombers Return From Objectives LONDON. May 19. Last night Royal Air Force bombers made another heavy attack on Kiel, and did further damage to tlie important shipbuilding yards there. Emden was also bombed. Aircraft of Hie Fleet Air Arm and tlie Coastal Command attacked the docks at Cherbourg. From all these operations not one British plane is missing. Coastal observers last night reported that wave after wave of bombers attacked the Frencli coast from Dunkirk to Boulogne for tlie third successive night.. The heaviest explosions yet heard rocked houses in south-east England. Capo Gris Nez and Calais seemed to receive specially heavy bombing. Reporting on Saturday night s raids, the Air Ministry stated that Cologne for the second night in succession waheavily attacked by bombers. Many high-explosive at)d incendiary bombs were dropped and many large tires were left burning in the industri: 1 ! quarters of the town. Attacks on a smaller scale were made on the docks at Rotterdam and Boulogne and ou other objectives in enemy-occupied ter ritory. French and Dutch harbours were’ attacked by aircraft ,of tin Coastal Comimind and the (■'lcel Air Arm. From all these night operations one airerafl <>l the Bomber < o.u ma ml was missing. Smail Genntui Operations. Last night two enemy aircraft were destroyed in small-scale raids on Britain. Bombs were dropped al l"'“ points, but there xvas neither damage nor casualties. An Air Ministry communique yesterday stated that there had been some'slight activity by enemy aircraft round our coasts in daylight, but none luid flown inland. Up to 7.30 p.m. there were m> reports ot boinhs ilroppeil. Londoners worshipped n- usim! in bornb-searred Westminster Abbey yesterday. A temporary altar had Iwe’i eroefed, and tlie damage screened