HAMBURG BATTERED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 203, 28 July 1942, Page 5

HAMBURG BATTERED

GREAT U-BOAT CENTRE

HEAVY BLOW DEALT (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright.) (Itec. 11 a.m.) RUGBY, July 27. British bombers made a heavy raid on the great German port of Hamburg last night. The weather was good, and preliminary reports indicate that the attack was most successful. _ Twentynine bombers are missing. This is the 91st raid on this the largest port in Germany. The shipbuilding yards at Hamburg produce more submarines than any other place in Germany. Aerodromes in the Low Countries were also bombed and Coastal Command aircraft, without loss, attacked enemy shipping off the Frisian Islands.

BOMBS DROPPED IN ENGLAND.

About 30 enemy aircraft came inland over Britain early tliis morning, flying singly and taking advantage of low cloud. Bombs were dropped in widely separated areas and casualties and damage have been reported from several places, but nowhere are they thought likely to be serious.—Official Wireless.

According to a Press Association cable, a raider over South-West England scored a direct hit on a factory, also a club, where a search is continuing for two women. The same raider afterwards machine-gunned a railway station. Two hit-and-run raiders released high explosives over two West Midland towns. The streets of one were machine-gunned. Another raider over a South-West England town dropped high explosives and machine-gunned the streets, causing damage in the residential quarter.