OTHER RAIDS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 9, 11 January 1941, Page 10

OTHER RAIDS

BREST DOCKS AGAIN

LARGE SHIP HIT

FIRES AT BIG OIL PLANT

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received January 11, 2.15 p.m.)

RUGBY, January 10.

A strong force of Coastal Command aircraft raided German shipping at the docks at Brest last night for the third time this week. The attack lasted for over six hours and was aided by bright moonlight in which the docks could be picked out clearly. The docks and storage buildings were repeatedly straddled with sticks of bombs, and fires started near the entrance to the Port Militaire. The wireless operator of one aircraft which made a particularly sueI cessful attack saw two of his bombs Jmake direct hits on a large ship. Others burst on the moles between the docks. The pilot of another aircraft saw a salvo hit near a dry dock. There was an immense burst as a building disintegrated, and a mushroom of black smoke rose slowly to a height of several hundred feet. The Air Ministry states that the synthetic oil plant at Gelsenkirchen was the main objective of last night's R.A.F. attacks. Though ground haze at times made it difficult to observe fully the result of explosions, fires were seen at the oil plant. The inland ports of Duisberg-Ruhr-ort and Dusseldorf, and a number of other objectives in the Ruhr, including blast furnaces, were also attacked Elsewhere, the oil storage plant at Rotterdam, and docks at Flushing, Dunkirk, and Calais were bombed. Coastal Command aircraft damaged the railway bridge at Egersund, on the south-west coast of Norway.

Two British planes are missing