BUDAPEST BOMBED

Grey River Argus, 4 July 1944, Page 5

BUDAPEST BOMBED

LONDON, July 2.

Upwards of 750 Fortresses and Liberators to-day attacked rail yards at Rakos on the north-east edge of Budapest, also the Vecses airfield, 10 miles from the city and the oil refinery at Kodlaz, says Reuter s correspondent at Allied; Headquarters in Italy. Other targets were industrial plants at Gyor .jM™ Almazfuzito, a refinery 30 mfies west of Budapest, and a rail bridge at Szulock, also rail yards at Brod, on the Zagreb-Belgrade line. The Berlin' radio stated that strong formations of American bombers raided Budapest, and claimed that 38 raiders were destroyed. Liberators and Wellingtons have been laying more mines in the Danube. Since the beginning .of the minelaying which has proved one of a seres of moves in disrupting Balkans communications, hundreds of miles of the river in Bulgaria, Rumania, and Hungary have been covered bv minelayers. The flow of "German supplies to the armies facing the Russians has been seriously, interfered with.