MANY FIRES STARTED

Evening Star, Issue 23727, 7 November 1940, Page 9

MANY FIRES STARTED

R;A.F. OVER GERMANY CHANNEL PORTS AGAIN BOMBED (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, November 6. (Received November 7, at 11.15 a.m.) Submarine-building yards at Yegesack, near Bremen, were among the objectives attacked last night by aircraft of the Bomber Command, according to ■an Air Ministry communique, which also states that attacks were carried out on petroleum sheds at Emden and shipbuilding yards at Bremerhaven and Bremen. At Emden 30 fires were caused in the target area. Other operations were directed against the Neuhof electricity power station at Hamburg, where a number of fires were started. The ports of Boulogne, Calais, Dunkirk, Antwerp, and Flushing were also heavily bombed, together with a number of aerodromes in enemy occupation. Two of our aircraft are missing. Yesterday aircraft of the Coastal Command were attacked by two enemy twin-engined fighters, and in the course of the ensuipg combat one enemy fighter was shot down into the sea.

RAID AND COUNTER RAID GERMAN ADMISSION LONDON, November 6. (Received November 7, at 12.40 p.m.) A German communique admits that British planes raided Germany and Holland last night and hit industrial plants. German night raids on Scottish ports and industrial plants included Dundee and Pentland Firth. KENYA NATIVES MONEY SUBSCRIBED FOR PLANES (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, November 5. Native subjects in Kenya want aeroplanes “to defend King George’s house,” and the latest cable messages from Niarobi state that the Kiambu Native Council subscribed £1,603 towards the purchase of a fighter, and, with £10,075 already put up by tribes of the central provinces, this enables the purchase of at least two fighters. The idea of purchase of aircraft came spontaneously from the Africans, and although warned that their planes might be destroyed $n the first flight, they replied: ‘‘We knot- what may happen, but we know they will bring down several enemy planes with them.” OFF BREST ENEMY FLYING BOAT SHOT DOWN LONDON, November 6. (Received November 7, at 10.55 a.m.) A Coastal Command plane this morning shot down a Dornier flying boat escorting enemy ships off Brest.