COLOGNE CASUALTIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 134, 9 June 1942, Page 5

COLOGNE CASUALTIES

AT LEAST 30,000 INJURED

LONDON, June 8

The Swiss newspaper "Gazette de Lausanne," quoting an unimpeachable source, says that one-fifth of Cologne's population has departed in the last few days

Refugees who reached Munich on Wednesday are described as haggard and1 panic-stricken. Hundreds were bandaged, and many severely injured. They declare that the number of dead in Cologne will not be known for some time. At least 30,000 were injured.

from the Midway area. The raids are regarded as a calculated blow at Australian shipping.

"The submarine attack on our coasts is part of the pattern of Japanese strategy in the Pacific," says the Sydney "Sun," in an editorial. "It is an attempt to cut our sea communications with our ally, America."

The official characterisation of the latest attacks as nuisance raids lends force to the theory that the shellings may have been a farewell gesture before the submarines, running short of fuel and supplies, were compelled to return to their base.

Supporters of this belief point to the recent raid on the Californian coast, when the submarine, having shelled shore objectives, disappeared and was not heard of again.