BOMBS ON GERMANY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1941, Page 5

BOMBS ON GERMANY

NINTH SUCCESSIVE NIGHT ATTACK ■■ ON INDUSTRIAL HEART OF,COUNTRY. TARGETS IN DUSSELDORFF & COLOGNE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) RUGBY, June 20. An Air Ministry communique states: “The Bomber Command attacked industrial targets at Cologne and Dusseldorf. Two of our planes are missing.” It was the ninth night in succession on which the R.A.F. had attacked objectives in the heart of industrial Germany. It is learned that two enemy aircraft were destroyed by our fighters over the Channel today.

CONTINUED LULL IN ENEMY ATTACKS ON BRITAIN. R.A.F. DAYLIGHT OPERATIONS.. LONDON, June 20. The lull in German activity over .'England continues, and there was only slight activity with little result. For the fourth day in succession, a force of R.A.F. bombers escorted by a large number of fighters today made a daylight raid over the Channel. The main targets on this occasion were the docks at Le Havre, where hits were scored on wharves and storage tanks. Very little fighter opposition was encountered. One enemy machine was shot down. An enemy supply ship escorted by a destroyer was hit by a bomb from a Coastal Command plane. The raid was carried out without loss to the British planes. The Moscow newspaper “Red Star,” organ of the Soviet Army, says that in a recent raid on Hamburg the R.A.F. destroyed five submarines anchored in the docks, as well as a shipyard.