RHINELAND RAIDED

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 November 1943, Page 5

RHINELAND RAIDED

COLOGNE CHEMICAL WORKS CHAOS IN BERLIN LONDON, November 21. The Air Ministry announced that Royal Air Force bombers on Friday night attacked Leverkusen, a suburb of Cologne, and other objectives m the Rhineland. The weather prevented immediate observation of the results. Mines were laid m enemy waters. Rive aircraft missing. Leverkusen was last bombed on August 22. It has many big chemical W Within 10 minutes of its homeward flight from the Rhineland on Friday night, a Halifax bomber , shot down a Junkers 88. damaged another, and scared awity a third. The Halifax flew safely' home with only trivial damage. All reports .from neutral sources indicate that Berlin is still stunned by the massiveness of Thursday night’s air raid. Swiss messages received at Stockholm say that the great weight of “block-busters' dropped caused enormous loss of life and destruction. Traffic in Berlin was completely paralysed. The Berlin radio has announced that Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris and Mr. Dingle Foot, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Warfare, both 01. whom “advocated terroristic air war against the civilian population,” have been included in the German register ol war criminals. The 75th (New Zealand) Stirling Squadron participated without loss in the raid of Ludwigshaven. One aircraft was captained by vV mg Commander R. D. Max, D.F.C., Nelson, the squadron’s commanding olIt is reported from Stockholm that the Royal. Air Force dropped leaflets over Berlin on Thursday night headed: “Germany has lost the war: Wo know it; Hitler knows it. lhe text read: “Hiller carries on a hopeless war, although lie knows the end of the war means his end. lie wants for that reason to persuade the Germans that they must hold out with him or go under, but Hitlers end does not mean the end ol the German people. Responsible Allied statesmen say that apart lyom. the enemy leaders nobody in the Axis countries need fear unconditional capitulation. They can. be assured; that unconditional capitulation does not mean that tftey must exchange wretchedness for tyranny."

RAIDS ON ENGLAND

LONDON, Nov. 21

Two German raiders were shot down over South-east England last night. Some of the enemy penetrated to the London area, where houses were destroyed. Some persons were killed and others were taken to Hospital. .. There was a little enemy activity over parts of south and south-east England on Friday night. Bombs were dropped at one point. There was slight damage and a small number oi casualties are reported. .

U.S.A. PLANE TRAGEDY

RIO DE JANIERO, Nov. 21. All of the fourteen passengers and four members of the crew were killed when a United States naval transport plane, bound for Rio de Janiero crashed in a fog in lhe Paracatu Mountains, thirty miles from 11 s destination.