RAIDS IN REICH

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 90, 12 October 1940, Page 11

RAIDS IN REICH

HAMBURG PLASTERED

"MOST VIOLENT EVER"

LONDON, October 11. In addition to co-operating with the Navy and pounding invasion ports themselves, British bombers last night bombed military targets in Germanoccupied territory. Strong forces singled out oil tanks in Germany for their main targets. The greatest damage seems to have been done at Hamburg, and the official German news agency described this | raid as "the most violent ever made." It says that British bombers let loose a hail of bombs which caused indescribable havoc. Oil storage tanks were attacked at | Hanover, Reisholz, Gelsenkirchen, Cologne, Magdeburg, and Leuna. Fires were started at all of them. Other bombers atacked warships at Wilhelmshaven, and in spite of intense fire from the ground and anti-aircraft, activity dropped sticks of bombs across | the harbour. '< I The Krupp shipyards at Kiel were; heavily bombed and fires were started in the docks. The Air Ministry communique reports also that shipping at Calais, Boulogne. Le Havre, and Brest was attacked in force. Shipping in the harbour at Flushing and Amsterdam was bombed. Attacks were made on the Fokker works at Amsterdam, and in the Rhineland factories and blast furnaces were ! attacked. Railway centres and aeroj dromes were raided and one group of j bombers flew as far as Bavaria, where an aerodrome was attacked. i British bombers shot, down two German planes during the night. They came home without the loss of a single i plane.