REPEATED ATTACKS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 6, 6 July 1940, Page 11

REPEATED ATTACKS

NAVAL BASES VISITED

R.A.F. BOMBERS

SUPPLY SHIP SURPRISED

{BrUlsh Official Wireless.) (Received July 6, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, July 5. The Air Ministry News Service states that a large German supply ship, one of a group of four seen some miles off the Dutch coast, was hit by a high explosive bomb during a series of daylight raids by R.A.F. bombers soon after noon yesterday. The raiders, on approaching, found the German ships stationary and facing in different directions, while their escort of two destroyers was steaming towards them. The dive attack by the planes took the. enemy so completely by surprise that not a single anti-aircraft gun was fired. An Air Ministry communique states: "Bombers yesterday made daylight attacks on oil refineries at Hanover and Emmerich, where large fires were started. Hits were registered on objectives at Hamm and Soest. "The Amsterdam and Brussels airports were also attacked, bombs falling on both aerodromes and on hangars, where fires were started. One of our aircraft is missing. "Coastal. Command aircraft, in the course of p.atrols and reconnaissances yesterday and today, attacked and damaged enemy patrol vessels off the coast of Holland. Two aircraft failed to return. "Bombers last night carried out attacks on naval bases at Wilhelmshaven, Emden, and Kiel, on the Dortmund and Ems Canal, on lines of communication at Hamburg, Osnabruck, Hamm, Schwerte, and Cologne, on aerodromes at Varel, Harburg, Aix-la-Chapelle, and again on the Brussels airport. Aircraft factories at Wenzendorf and Bremen were also attacked. Hits were observed on all these objectives. One of our aircraft is missing." A small German anti-aircraft gun ship off the Dutch coast was completely overturned by a bomb from a Coastal Command Hudson early this morning. The bomb fell within two feet of the side of the vessel, which disappeared in a great splash. The crew of the Hudson saw the ship floating upside down when the surface of the sea cleared. Other patrol vessels of the same formation were attacked. A number of bombs were such "near misses" that several ships were left in a sinking condition. Another Hudson attacked and damaged a German supply ship off Stavanger.