GERMAN SUPPLIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 147, 18 December 1943, Page 7

GERMAN SUPPLIES

AN EFFECTIVE BLOW

Rec. 11.30 a.m. RUGBY, Dec. 17. Another effective blow was struck at communications between Germany and Italy yesterday. The railway yards at Padua were attacked by escorted heavy bombers, and bombers alsoi attp"ked the Padua railway bridge. Other targets included gun positions* motor transport, and communication points on the Fifth Army and Eighth Army fronts, and shipping on both coasts, of Italy.; Civitavecchia was again bombed and hits were scored on ships and warehouses. On the night of December 15 light bombers attacked enemy transport in the Sibenik and Dubrovnik areas and destroyed vehicles. ; Eleven enemy aircraft were destroyed and two of ours are missing. The attack on Padua was the first strong attack made on that city, which is a rail distributing point for traffic from Austria and the Balkans .and over the Brenner Pass. Liberators bombed a bridge and a tunnel at Dogna, near Trieste. This was followed twenty-four hours later by an attack on Innsbruck, Bolzano, and the Avisio River bridge, near Trento. Lightnings, supporting Liberators, encountered no fighters at Dogna, but fought it out with about twenty near !Padua, and destroyed five. All the bombers returned safely. Medium and fighter bombers had a big day again at enemy shipping and transports, hitting three ships at Zara. They also hit quays and railway yards at Sibenik. Fighter bombers left a vessel sinking and another on fire off the Yugoslav coast. During these attacks they gave battle to fifteen enemy fighters and destroyed five. —8.0. W.