BOMBS ON TIMOR

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 173, 18 April 1942, Page 7

BOMBS ON TIMOR

Airman Describes ThreeMinute Raid (British Official Wireless.) (Received April 17, 11.55 p.m.) RUGBY, April 17. Describing to au agency correspondent in Melbourne the threeminute attack on Timor recently for which the planes travelled several hundred miles, a member of one of the crews at au advanced Allied base said: “Exactly at dusk we arrived over the target. Each pilot had been carefully instructed iu the object to attack. "The Japanese were on the alert as we approached. The Zeros flew in to attack. Our pilots immediately split up, dived in the face of anti-aircraft fire to drop their bombs on ships and the harbour. A Zero, with guns blazing, attacked us from ahead, but our bomber came on and he fell away. “Another Zero attacked from the rear and below us, but just as he was making a climbing turn right beneath our bomber, the gunner got the Zero in his sights. It was shot to pieces and fell in the sea. The other Zeros made off.”

ARRIVAL IN EGYPT Dominion W.W.S.A. Girls ( N.Z.E.F, Oiiicial News Service.) CAIRO, April 16. Ten W.W.S.A. girls from New Zealand arrived in Egypt recently, nine for welfare work in the New Zealand Club and one V.A.D. The voyage, under luxury conditions, was made without incident, except for a heavy storm and a 90-mile-an-hour gale as the ship was passed by a typhoon. The girls started work today. Their names are Sergeant Edith Thornton, Corporal Mary Mathias, Privates K. Bourke, IV. MacDonald, I*. S. Elan, all of Wellington; Privates N. Langrish, Pat King, W. Dromgool. ail of Auckland; Private M. .Moore, of Gore; and V.A.D. Joyce Lamont, of Wanganui.