NIGHT OPERATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 23718, 28 October 1940, Page 5

NIGHT OPERATIONS

BRITISH BOMBING ATTACKS CARRIED OUT DESPITE BAD WEATHER SELECTED TARGETS AGAIN BOMBED Official Wireless.? Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright! RUGBY, October 27. (Received October 28, at 11.55 a.m.)' “ One British aircraft is missing from extensive night operations carried out’ in adverse weather,” an Air Ministry communique states. “ Last night our bomber offensive continued. Poor weather conditions were experienced over many of the targets, but despite this our pilots and crews attacked aircraft works, an electric power station, and goods yards in Berlin, oil plants at Stettin, Leuna, and Cologne, naval docks at Hamburg, Cushaven, and Bremen, railway communications at Bremen, Dortmund, and Brussels, the ports of Flushing and Antwerp, and several enemy aerodromes.” THE COASTAL COMMAND. Before daylight on Saturday morning aircraft of the Coastal Command delivered a successful attack on the electric power station at Brest, states an Air Ministry bulletin. Later in the day other aircraft of tba Coastal Command carried out a torpedo attack on shipping off the Norwegian coast. One enemy supply vessel was sunk. Our aircraft were then attacked by a strong force of enemy fighters, one of which was shot down. Two of our aircraft are missing. Yesterday morning aircraft of the Bomber Command, while searching for another of our aircraft which was missing, encountered and shot down an enemy float plane in the North Sea. NAZI SUPPLY SHIP SUNK COASTAL COMMAND IN AIR BATTLE ACTIVITY OFF NORWEGIAN COAST (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 27. (Received October 28, at 11.55 a.m.)’ Beaufort aircraft of the Coastal Command sank a 2,500-ton enemy supply, ship near Sogne Fiord, Norway, on, Saturday morning. Three Beanforts were on an offensive reconnaisanco off the Norwegian coast, when, they sighted the ship and dived to make a torpedo attack* The ship was struck, blew up, and disappeared within a few seconds. Immediately afterwards the Beauforts were engaged by a strong force of Messerschmitt 109 fighters, and a hardfought action against heavy odds ensued, during which one of the British! pilots quickly shot down the first Messerschmitt which came up against him. Then he went to the assistance of a Beaufort which was fighting two of the enemy, and drew the fire away from his comrade. While carrying on this combat, a third enemy aircraft attacked from the other side, and he lost touch, but fortunately was able to gain cloud cover. From this action two, British aircraft did not return to their base. When last seen they were hotly engaging the enemy. GERMAN MILITARY TARGETS SEARCH FDR PROTECTIVE DEVICES EXPERIMENTS WITH STEEL NETS STOCKHOLM, October ,27. ' (Received October 28, at 8 a.m.) The ‘ Aftonbladet’s ’ Berlin correspondent says that though the R-.A.F. last night dropped some high explosives the bombing was apparently mainly with incendiaries. Many fires were started, and great flares appeared in the sky. The Berlin correspondent of the Associated Press of America says German engineers are doing their utmost to devise the most efficient method of protection for military targets. They are experimenting with huge steel nets over factories and other devices designed to explode bombs above the structure.

MILITARY CABLE GUT

DRASTIC GERMAN REACTION ZURICH, October 27. (Received October 28, at 8 a.m.) As a sequel to the cutting of the German military cable to Paris by uuknown persons the military authorities arrested 60 men as hostages. They must guard the cable day and night for a week, and will be shot in the event o/ a similar happening.

RUMANIAN IRON GUARDS

ENTRY FORCED INTO POLISH EMBASSY LONDON, October 27. (Received October 28, at 8 a.m.) The Polish Embassy revealed that ou the night of October 20 Iron Gu.-i.ds forced their way into the Polish Embassy at Bucharest. Four members of the Gestapo directed the search aud took documents from the archives.