RAIDS ON ENEMY

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1940, Page 5

RAIDS ON ENEMY

OVER. WIDE AREA

HEAVIEST OF WAR.

(United Press Association Per Electric Telegraph Copyright)

(Received this day at 9.55 a.m.) RUGBY, September 12,

Perhaps the most widespread attack of the war so far, on military objectives in Germany and German-occupied territory, was carried out last night by the R.A.F.

An Air Ministry communique states the Coastal Command aircraft yesterday attacked an enemy convoy off Dunkirk, sinking one enemy supply ship.

Another force of the Coastal Command aircraft, operating with the Fleet Air Arm, attacked a convoy off Cape Gris Nez, hitting one enemy supply ship, which was left burning, and seriously damaging another. In the course of this attack, our aircraft encountered a force of enemy fighters and bombers, three of which were destroyed and others damaged.

Three of our aircraft were lost

Last night strong forces .of bomber aircraft carried out attacks on railway stations, goods yards and an aerodrome at Bei'lin, dock's and shipyards at Hamburg, Bremen and Wilhelmshaven, an oil plant at Monheim, explosives factory at Frankfurt, goods yards at Hamm, Cologne, Coblenz, Mannheim, Ehrang. a railway junction at Namur, and enemy aerodromes in Germany and Holland. ... Other forces of bombers attacked barge concentrations, docks and shipping at Ostend, Flushing, Calais and Boulogne. Three of our aircraft did not return. TUESDAY’S RAID. i _ _ CASUALTIES LIST. LONDON, September 11. Full reports of Tuesday night’s casualties are not yet available, but 18 are known to have been killed and 280 injured in the London area. Several Casualties on Monday night make the total now reported in the neighbourhood of 400 killed and 1400 injured, the majority of the fatalities occurring when an elementary school in the East End of London affording temporary shelter to- families whose homes bad been destroyed, was hit and collapsed.

EAST END TRAGEDY.

LONDON, September 11

■The East End last night suffered again a terrible hammering. It is feared that many men, women, and children; evacuated from their homes after Saturday’s raids, were killed when an East End school was wrecked. The school was used as a. refuge for about 500 homeless people. Doctors and nurses worked with torches, treating survivors rescued from under tons "f debris. Masonry and girders crumbled down on the refugees who were sheltering on the ground doer. Rescuers found two babies, aged nine and six months respectively, alive under the ruins. Dozens of streets in this area presented a scene of homes demolished.

BERLIN CASUALTIES. (Received this day at 12 noon). LONDON, September 12. The. Rome radio stated that the R.A.F. raid on Berlin on the night of September 10th and 11th resulted in 1,743 casualties. ANOTHER BIG RAID. ' MADE ON BERLIN. (Received this daj at 12.-10 p.m.) LONDON, September 12. It- is officially stated that bombers again carried out a big raid on Berlin last night, straddling Potsdam station with heavy calibre bombs, followed by incendiaries. The bombers hit the buildings and tracks "at Anhalter, near Potsdam, and in a series of runs ever the target, repeated salvoes struck the- goods yards of both ' stations. Bombs fell at Tiergarten, and Templehof aerodromes. One of our planes was damaged, but all returned. Our planes machine-gunned motor torpedo-boats from low altitudes. GERMAN REPORT. (Received this day at 12.40 p.m.) BERLIN, September 12. The radio announced that British bombers attacked the world-famous monuments, symbols of modern Germany and other cities. In addition to (Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen suffered damage.