GROUPS OF BARGES

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 5, 5 July 1940, Page 8

GROUPS OF BARGES

TARGETS FOR R.A.F.

CONTINENTAL COAST RAIDED

AIR TROOP-CARRIERS

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.)

(Received July 5, 1.30 p.m.)

LONDON, July 4. It is officially announced that the R.A.F. yesterday and last night bombed concentrations of barges on the Dutch seacoast and set fire to troop-carrying planes and other aircraft at aerodromes in Belgium, Holland, France, and Germany. The Air Ministry stated: "During the R.A.F. raids our bombers attacked oil plants, communications, aircraft factories, and1 canals in Germany and German-occupied territories. One of our planes is missing. "A group of hangars at the Brussels airport was set on fire and at least five Junkers bombers and other planes are believed to have been hit. "The R.A.F. also bombed The Hague aerodrome and saw high-explosive and incendiary bombs bursting amid the planes and the German crews as they raced to cover. Three German planes were burning fiercely as the raiders left. "Dive-bombing attacks were also made at Aix-la-Chapelle, Hamburg, Meumunster, Osnabruck, Lunen, St. Omer, Merville, and the western extremity of the Zuider Zee. "The R.A.F. has destroyed 40 German warplanes between June 23 and July 4." "RETALIATION APPROACHING." The German news agency, after alleging that 40 civilians were killed or wounded in a British' air raid on the Hamburg residential area, declares that the hour for retaliation is rapidly ap- i proaching. The casualties are reported to include 12 children, a man, and three women, who were killed. The official German news agency states that 16 persons were killed and 25 injured during an R.A.F. raid on a suburb of Hamburg. It also declares that 10,000 bombs have been dropped in Germany since the outbreak of the | war, killing 448 persons and injuring 1042. j