ALLIED AIR RAIDS

Grey River Argus, 22 September 1944, Page 8

ALLIED AIR RAIDS

RUGBY, Sept. 14. Four major' German towns, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Osnabruck and Munster, which • were attacked by R.A F. bombers on Tuesday and Wednesday were still burning fiercely yesterday. Darmstadt which was reduced to a mass of ruins after an R.A.F. attack was smouldering. A Communist leader, Ernest Thaelmann, and a Social Democrat, Breitschie, were killed when the Buchenwald concentration camp was hit during a raid against Weimar on August 28. . Thaelmann. was a former Secretary of the German Communist Party and a former member of the Reichstag. He was a candidate for the German Presidency in 1932. He was arrested in 1933. Breitschie escaped from Germany to France in 1933 and remained until 1941, when Vichy handed him over to Germany. He was a former member of the Reichstag.

Mosquito pilots .attacked Berlin last night. Russian bombers last night, made a mass raid on Budapest, attacking military objectives. Twenty-live fires were started. Fortresses flying from Russia to Italy attacked an ordnance factory eight miles north-east of Budapest.

Naval fighter aircraft operating from the aircraft-carrier Furious and the escort carrier Trumpeter, attacked with cannon an enemy supply ship and three escorting M. class minesweeners off Statlandet, Norway on Tuesday. ■An escort vessel blew up and sank. When last seen the remaining ships were stopped and in a damaged condition. Allied bombers yesterday attacked oil refineries and a railyard in Ger-man-Polish Silesia, railroad bridges in northern Italy, and the Po Valley, gun nositions ann defence positions in the Rimini area area, .also north of Florence, transport in Yugoslavia, ships near Genoa and dromes near Athens, used by the German transport planes linking garrison in Greece and the Aegean.