OSLO RAIDED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20900, 28 September 1942, Page 3

OSLO RAIDED

SMALL R.A.F. FORCE SHOCK FOR QUISLING CEREMONY INTERRUPTED (British Official Wireless.) (9 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 27 Aircraft of the Bomber Command attacked objectives in Oslo late on Friday afternoon. One of the aircraft is missing. It is officially announced by the Air Ministry that the attack was made during a rally of National Socialists. Four bombers attacked the Nazi headquarters in the city. At the time of the attack a meeting of party leaders was being held nearby. Bombs were dropped from about 100 ft. and hits were seen on the Gestapo building. . One of cur aircraft is missing but the others returned safely. The German allegation that three of the attacking bombers were shot down confirms the effect of the attack. The Air Ministry’s news service ouvs that the aircraft were Mosquitos. This is the first .time that this new twin-engined light bomber has been mentioned on operational duties There was brilliant sunshine over the Norwegian capital during the attack A flight of FWlO9s attacked them a few miles from Oslo, when the plane mentioned was lost. The remaining three aircraft bombed from a low level and saw their bombs strike the Gestapo building. “The English Have Come” An Olso agency message states that the bombers reached Oslo unobserved and that the sirens sounded only when the explosions rocked the university building where the Quisling meeting was taking place. Quisling, with his bodyguard and audience, took to the cellars. The first alarm was at 5 p.m. and another sounded just under an hour later, ruining the arrangements for a big parade of his followers before Quisling, which was timed for 6.30 p.m. Late yesterday smoke was still rising from the ruins of the bombed buildings in Oslo, states an agency message, following the Royal Air Force raid, which sent hundreds ol Quislings gathered in the city for the Nasjonal Samling rally scurrying for shelter. A flag hoisted by Norwegian patriots was still flying, too. When the British planes appeared Norwegians stood on rooftops and waved. According to a private report from Oslo they were indescribably enthusiastic and shouted, “The English have come.” The Press Association’s aeronautical correspondent says that the Oslo raid was the first mention of Mosquitos being used in Royal Air Force operational service. The Mosquito is a twin-engined light bomber still on the secret list. It is evident that the Mosquito is very fast, since three of them eluded Focke-Wulf 190’s, Germany’s newest and fastest fighters.