FRENCH AIR FLEET BOMBS GIBRALTAR
100 Planes Attack the Rock
••REPRISAL" RAIDS United Press Association—Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, Sept. 25. One hundred French aircraft raided Gibraltar to-day, and more than 300 bombs were dropped. There are no details yet of damage or casualties. This was the second raid; the first was made on Tuesday. To-day’s raid lasted hours.
It is officially stated at Gibraltar that 20 or more planes of a French type dropped 100 bombs from a height of 20,000 feet on Tuesday, killing four and injuring 12 people. Anti-aircraft guns from the ground and warships shot down at least one plane. One raid lasted four hours. It was the longest yet. It is officially stated at Vichy that, retaliating for the shelling of Dakar, an important number of French planes on Tuesday dropped 45 tons of bombs on Gibraltar, hitting an arsenal, the south mole, and one big ship. Heavy smoke was observed. The bombs, it is stated, caused far greater damage than any past Italian or German raid. “It will not be the last reprisal if the British continue to shell Dakar,” says Vichy. The German news agency states that French planes continued their bombing of Gibraltar this morning.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 229, 27 September 1940, Page 8
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