NAVAL BASES HIT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 4 December 1940, Page 6

NAVAL BASES HIT

BRITISH BOMBING RAIDS SHIPPING ALSO ATTACKED BOMBS ON NAPLES AND SICILY [U.P.A.-By Electric Telegraph-Copyrightj (Received 4th December, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, 3rd December. ' Tiie Royal Air Force last night scored more successes against German shipping and naval bases. Italy was also attacked. The U-boat base at Lorient on the French Atlantic coast was raided for the second night in succession by planes of the Bomber Command. At the same time bomber planes of the Coastal Command attacked German shipping off the Norwegian coast and several hits were recorded. To-day’s Italian communique admits raids on Naples and Augusta, Sicily, adding that several fires were started, j All the R.A.F planes returned. Last night Coastal Command aircraft attacked shipping off the Norwegian: coast. One ship sustained a direct J hit. A large explosion and fire followed 1 ! the bombing of the wharves at Afje Is-! i land Yesterday a direct hit was scored on i the stern of an enemy supply ship off the Norwegian coast. None of our planes was lost. .L.ONDON, 2nd December. The Air Ministry news service states that last night a small force of British heavy bombers in spite of very unfavourable weather visited Marinewerft at Wilhelmshaven, one of Germany’s most important shipbuilding yards. Marinewerft is beside a large basin from which ar canal leads to the sea. Warships of all kinds are built there, and there are six dry docks in which submarines are being constructed. At the end of the raid a large fire had spread well within the limit of the' shipbuilding yards, where a shower of incendiary bombs had fallen.