BELFAST RAIDED

Evening Star, Issue 23862, 17 April 1941, Page 7

BELFAST RAIDED

BOMBERS GUIDED BY DUBLIN CITY LIGHTING NORTH IRELAND RECRUITING OFFICES BUSHED LONDON, April IG. (Received April 17, at 11.20 a.m.) A communique issued from Belfast states; “ Belfast bore the brunt of the indiscriminate enemy air attacks on Northern Ireland last night. High explosives and incendiaries were dropped at random over the city. Many fell in the residential and shopping areas, causing numerous casualties, many fatal. Other bombs damaged industrial and commercial premises.” Many enemy aircraft, in the raids against Northern Ireland passed over Dublin and other neutral territory in Fire, and used the city lights as a guide to their Ulster targets. Fire brigades from other towns were sent to Belfast to assist in the fire fighting. The ‘ Evening Standard’s ’ Belfast correspondent says there is strong feeling about those lights in Fire, and a protest may be sent to the Fire Govern-

ment asking it to speed up preparations for a blackout of Dublin. A feature of the reaction in Ulster to the raids is the rush on the recruiting offices to join the Army, Navy, or R.A.F. A German communique says that strong formations attacked Belfast, scoring direct hits on harbour and armament works, and causing extensive fires at the Harland and Wolff shipyard. AID TO CHINA WASHINGTON, April 10. President Roosevelt for the first time intimated that ho had pledged material aid to China under the Lease and Lead Act. “Wo are already reviewing the list of items urgently needed,” he said.