R.A.F. REVENGE

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 3, 29 September 1942, Page 5

R.A.F. REVENGE

Gestapo Officials’ Death THE OSLO RAID

(By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received September 28, 11.55 p.m.) LONDON, September 28.

In the raid on Oslo on Friday the Mosquitoes’ bombs killed 30 Gestapo officials, 10 of whom died in the “cellar of torture” beneath the Gestapo building in Victoria Terrace, where political prisoners were .“cross-examined,” says the Stockholm correspondent of the “Daily Express.” A bomb crashed through into the cellar before exploding and wiped the officials out. They included ObersturmFuehrer Bernardt, whose cruelty has made his name infamous throughout Norway. He commanded the expedition which savagely punished the Lofoten Islanders after the first British commando raid in 1941. 4 - Several German officers were also killed, including the first aide-de-camp to the German police chief in Oslo, General Rediess. High Storm Trooper officials are ’still buried under the ruins. The Germans are trying to hide the effects of the raid. The official list of casualties gives only seven killed aud 67 injured. OSLO EXCITED Dramatic R.A.F. Swoop (British Official Wireless.) (Received September 28, 7 p.m.) RUGBY, September 27. Late on Saturday smoke was still rising from the ruins of the bombed buildings in Oslo, states a news agency message, following the R.A,F. raid there on Friday evening. A flag hoisted by Norwegian patriots was still flying. When the British planes appeared, the Norwegians stood oh the rooftops arid waved. According to a private report from Oslo, they, were indescribably enthusiastic ’ and shouted u“The English have come.” . “Quisling arid I had an appointment in the same town,” said Squadron Leader G. Parry, D.F.C. and bar, who was the leader of the flight of Mosquitoes which raided Oslo. “After flying over 400 nines, of calm sea aud skimming up hills and down valleys, the flight arrived in time for its assignation. From round a hill we came down on Oslo, lying in the hollow at the end of the fiord and lookin- very white in the sunshine, against the dark green,of the fir trees. People stood in the streets, and they didn t run from Us. In formation we made for the Gestapo headquarters, a tall building in three blocks with a dome above the middle block. W6 made for the dome, still flying in formation, and I saw the swastika flying on top before I bombed. We in the leading aircraft hadn’t seen the German fighters, who were already after us, oh the bombing run, but the crews behind me had ; still, they all opened their bomb doors and kept straight on their target. One of oUr formation was hit, but he .kept on, too. He was the one who did not return. One of the observers told me he saw all our load go through the roof. He watched the tiles flying up and thought the bombs were exploding iiietantly, but it Was only the Shock of impact. I wish we had beefi down below to Watch. As we evaded the enemy planes on the way back to England, we saw at intervals a brown pillar of smoke running from the Gestapo headquarters, and 35 miles away, when We could not see the buildings of Oslo auy more, we could still see the smoke.” TIMID QUISLINGITES (British Official Wireless.) (Received September 27, 7 p.m.) ; RUGBY, September 27. A further step toward the disintegration of. the Quisling party, the National Sanding, was made in Norway this weekend. Appealing against being conscripted for service on the eastern front, .members of. the party have been holding protest meetings throughout the country, and as a result 50 have already been arrested anT a further 273 of the Hirdmen have been interned.