BOMBS ON GERMANY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 219, 14 August 1940, Page 8

BOMBS ON GERMANY.

ENDER WINTRY CONDITIONS. (British Official Wireless.) Received August 14, 1.48 p.m. RUGBY, Aug. 13. Severe weather conditions are still being experienced by the bombers miring their night attacks on Germany. In Monday night’s raid ttie temperature was 20 degrees below zero, and ice-torm.ing conditions were experienced. . Some R.A.F. aircraft heavily laden with bombs became coated with ice, and when attacked by the ground defences were unable because of the additional weight to climb out of danger until they had reached their targets and unloaded their bombs. Widespread low cloud has rurther hampered bombing in many parts oi t‘he operations area, and the success of the series of attacks on large aircraft At Diepholz where bombs were seen to burst on the landing ground, the hit was confirmed only by the lucky chance of another gap in the clouds a few minutes later which enabled the following aircraft to see fires blazing in the target area. , Damage to an airrrame factory at Gotha was similarly confirmed by a late arrival over the objective lhe crew reported that t'lieir bombs led to an increase in the intensity of the fire which was already burning. HITTING BACK.

Bomb for bomb, the British raiders are hitting back at Germany in day and night raids over wide areas of German-occupied Europe as the fighters on the home stations exact a separate toll of Germany's ' blitzkrieg armadas. The strength of the British raiding squadrons is steadily increasing and they are covering wider areas under cover of the lengthening nights. They are conducting their own blitzkrieg in their own way, despite the addition of weather hazards to the manifold dangers from the ground defences.