OFFENSIVE RESUMED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 13 October 1941, Page 5

OFFENSIVE RESUMED

200 R.A.F. BOMBERS OUT x Kl Hit AND RHINELAND TARGETS IN OCCUPIED COUNTRIES Rugby, Oct., 11. The weather last night was more suitable for Royal Air Force operations and over 200 bombers were out. The main targets were in the Ruhr and there were subsidiary attacks on the docks at Rotterdam, Ostend, Dunkirk and Bordeaux. | Ten aircraft of the Bomber Command arc missing. Enemy aerodromes in Holland and } i France were attacked during the night j to .L.v Fighter Command Havocs, says! r the Air Ministry news service. At one .h ■ aerodrome in Holland a load of inccn-{ ic diary bombs started one large tire and ; •r ; two smaller ami r- At another Dutch aerodrome used 1 d , by the Luftwaffe a number of high- 1 se j explosive bombs were dropped and a j w ; large aircraft was seen to be on fire i on the ground. The Havocs then J ie circled the aerodrome and dropped i ,s j more bombs around the blaze. .it ' , f . NO OPPOSITION OVER FRANCE } i R.A.F. lighters carried out a numbei I jo! patrols over northern France during d i lhe c * ay to - da y- German troops and transport and other targets were at~ ■ tacked from low level with cannon and 'machine-gun fire. None of our uir- " ; craft is missing. lo j A significant feature of the Air ( l Ministry communique issued yesterday j v i is the fact that no German machine v j made its appearance when British ! fighters visited northern France. n A supply ship was hit when Blenia i heims of the Coastal Command, p | escorted by fighters, attacked shipping { j | off the coast of Holland. I Radio Orange, on behalf of the Netherlands Government, had advised ■ inhabitants of Rotterdam to remove themselves in the vicinity of the ! harbour and the iarshalling yards. It explained that after the hammering . of Bremen and Hamburg by the R.A.F. ; the Germans have transferred shipping } to Rotterdam.—B.O.W. j I.ITTI.E ACTIVITY OVER BRITAIN 5-s | Rugby, Oct. 11. | E. I An 'icial communique states that a I ‘I ! few enemy aircraft flew over coastal II ' districts of Britain last night. Bombs it j were dropped at two points in eastern ’s j England. Some damage was done and 1* at one place there was a small number lo of casualties. One enemy aircraft was 3f destroyed. The German news agency says the Luftwaffe bombed Hull during the e night and that explosions and fires were observed in the city area.— is 8.0. W. ;e j