DAY AND NIGHT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 10, 13 January 1941, Page 7

DAY AND NIGHT

R.A.F. ON CONTINENT

TURIN ARSENAL HIT

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received January 13, noon.)

RUGBY, January 12

An Air Ministry communique states: "In daylight yesterday aircraft of the Bomber Command' attacked a number of targets on or near the Dutch and Belgium coasts. Targets in a canal at Middleharmis were damaged. Two hits were obtained on a mole at Zeebrugge and troops drilling in a barrack square at Domburg were machinegunned from a low level.

"During the night bombers of the same command were active over Germany and northern Italy. Shipbuilding yards at Wilhelmshaven were attacked. "A small force went to Turin and scored direct hits on the RoyaJ Arsenal, causing one major and several minor explosions. Four tires and a heavy explosion occurred in another target near by. "From .all these operations two of our machines are missing but the crew of one of them is known to be safe."

An Italian communique says: British planes last night dropped, incendiary and explosive bombs on Turin, where houses were hit and three people were killed and four wounded, also at Savigliano, where a military, hospital, houses, and a church were hit