GERMAN RAIDERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24542, 26 March 1943, Page 3

GERMAN RAIDERS

S(/IIO()LCII ILDIMCN ESCAPE SIX ENEMY PLANES DOWN LONDON, March Knemy aircraft ivcre over the northeast const of Kngla ml last night. Bombs were dropped at one place. Other raiders peiieiraicd to central Scotland and a town in the south-east, of Scotland was attacked. thinners and fighters accounted for six of the day's raiders. One was shot down off north-east Scotland in the afternoon and two in south-east England a few hours earlier. One raider was hit by an anti-aircraft shell and blew up. Bits of the plane fell in the streets of Ashford, in Kent. Three other raiders were destroyed during the night, » Prompt action and discipline prevented another school tragedy yesterday morning, when tip-and-run raiders were over a south-east town. About 250 schoolchildren between eight and 11 years of age were afc lessons when the Focke Wulfs attacked. There was iust time to get the children away to the shelters before the classrooms were blown to pieces. The raiders machinegunned the streets and some people lost their lives. Rescue parties were §till at work last night. Railway targets in Germany were bombed at dusk to-nigh" by an R.A.F. squadron. During the afternoon fighters on offensive patrol attacked railway communications in Northern France. One fighter is missing from these operations. The Luftwaffe so far this month has lost: 27 tip-and-run raiders brought down by British fighters and anti-air-craft, guns. Algiers radio says the R.A.F. bombed Prague, capital of Czechoslovakia, last night. SUBMARINE EXPLOITS MANY JAPANESE VICTIMS (Reed. 7.20 p.m.) WASHINGTON, March 24 Listing the exploits of an unnamed American submarine which sank 10 Japanese ships in a year's operations against enemy supply lines from lndoChina to the South Pacific, the United States Navy Department revealed that this submarine sank a Japanese submarine within sight of an enemy base. Lieutenant-Commander William Ferral, commander of the submarine, said it was the first known instance of an American submarine sinking another in this war. ITo said: "Wc discovered the Japanese submarine while patrolling submerged. They were on the surface near their base and never saw ns. We fired a single torpedo. The Japanese boat filled up and sank rapidly. We saw no survivors. Those on the enemy submarine never knew what had hit them." Lieutenant-Commander Ferral added that his submarine sank a total of 50.000 tons of enemy shipping, including seven loaded cargo steamers and two troop transports. INTERNATIONAL FLYING CANADA'S POST-WAR PLANS LONDON, March 25 Canada is already considering plans for international flying after the war, said the Minister of Munitions, Mr. C. D. Howe, in Ottawa yesterday. Mr. Howe was tabling the annual report of Trans-Canada Airlines. The report pointed out that Canada occupies au important pos-'iion in the lut ine air world, since the shortest routes between America and Kurope and Asia cross the Dominion, and weather conditions there are stable. The company believes that Canada's national airline is destined to play an important part in post-war international flying, although it is too early vet to formulate detailed nroerammes.