KIEL BLASTED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 144, 20 May 1941, Page 5

KIEL BLASTED

BOMBS ON SHIPYARDS.

EMDEN ALSO RAIDED. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 9 a.m.) LONDON, May 19. The Air Ministry announces that R.A.F. bombers attacked Kiel last night, further damaging the important shipbuilding j yards located there. I Our machines also bombed the port | of Enidcn and the docks at Cherbourg. | None of our ’planes is missing from i these operations. ’Planes of the Fleet Air Arm coI operated in the attack on Cherbourg. The Air Ministry states that enemy aircraft last night dropped bombs on two points in the south-west of Eng land. There was no damage or casual ties. One enemy aircraft was shot down. It is revealed that a centuries’ old manor house at Farningham, in Kent, i once the home of Captain Bhgli of | the Bounty, was demolished in a recent' raid.

The Dreadnought Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, which in the past has eared for thousands of all nation, alities, including 5000 German seamen, was seriously damaged in another raid. Nurses carried out 28 patients and had many beds available for sailors two days later.

A British Official Wireless report says a communique issued on Monday stated :

“There has been some enemy air activity, mainly off the East and South-East Coasts, to-day, but few hostile aircraft have flown inland. In the early morning bombs were dropped at two places on the South-West Coast. Some damage was done and there were a small number of casualties caused, some of which were fatal.

“Five enemy fighters were destroyed by fighters of the It.A.l l ', over the Channel to-day. Four of our fighters are missing from patrol, but three of the pilots are safe.” In the past 24 nours eight enemy planes have been destroyed over and around Britain.

MESSER6CHMITTS WORSTED,

Four Spitfires patrolling over a convoy in the English Channel in the afternoon met ten Messerschmitt 109 s. In the fight which followed five of the Messerschinitts were shot down in as many minutes without loss to ourselves. Two Spitfire pilots got two each and a third the otiier one. Only one German had time to bale out. The fight gave our pilots their revenge lor, earlier in the day, a formation of Messerschmitt 109 s pounced on two machines ol the same British squadron and shot them down. Both pilots haled out and were saved. This squadron now claims 87 victories.