SMASHED BEYOND REPAIR
RENAULT MOTOR WORKS EFFECTIVE R.A.F. BOMBING (Rec 7.30 p.m.) RUGBY, July 13. Photographs smuggled out of France show indisputably that the R.A.F. bombing of the Renault motor works on March 3 was so well directed that the whole of the vast works on lie Seguin and on the banks o£ the Rhone were smashed beyond repair and are of no further use to the enemy. All that now remains of great factories which made tanks, plane engines, and lorries is a mass of twisted girders and smashed buildings. Since the raid 20 per cent, of the machines have been out of action, and production until August will be under 25 per cent, of the normal figure. Undamaged material has been sent to Italy. Reports received in London from Paris state that 60,000 German men, women and children, evacuated from Cologne since the R.A.F. raid, have arrived in Paris, hotels and apartment houses having been requisitioned for them'.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24968, 15 July 1942, Page 3
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