COLOGNE HAS TURN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 29 April 1942, Page 5

COLOGNE HAS TURN

FINE WEATHER AIDS R.A.F. TRONDHEIM ALSO BOMBED GRAVE DAMAGE AT ROSTOCK ADMITTED c noon) Rugby, April 28. After four night attacks on Rostock, the R.A.F. last night switched their attack to Cologne, third ; <iiy of the Reich and the most ini- . portant industrial city in Germany The attack was made in clear weather, and targets at Cologne and elsewhere in the Rhineland were easily seen. Large fires were left burning. Chemicals, machinery and soap are the main produce of Cologne, which has received other raids, the last at the beginning of the month. It is revealed that the Royal Air ; Force, in addition to its attacks over Germany, last night bombed the German naval base at Trondheim, in Norway, where the new battleship Tirpitz and other big German naval units were recently reported. Seventeen bombers are missing in the night’s operations. "The Times” correspondent on the German frontier says: “The raids on Rostock have evoked far longer and more angry protests in the German Press than those on Lubeck. The gravity of the damage is unreservedly admitted, but the military advantage gained is unanimously denied. “Nevertheless, the form and intensity of the editorial comment make the presumption inescapable that the scale of the damage at Rostock has far exceeded even Lubeck.” The Air Ministry states: “A reconnaissance established that during the attacks on Rostock, the main assembly sheds of the Heinkel aircraft factory as well as many subsidiary buildings were damaged. Fires at Rostock were still burning at noon on Monday.” Swedish newspapers report that Rostock has been practically wiped out. — 8.0. W.