ONCE AGAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 1941, Page 6

ONCE AGAIN

NAPLES GETS HEAVY ■ BATTERING OTHER SUCCESSFUL RAIDS.’ ON SICILY AND LIBYA. LONDON, November 14. Naples was again raided by British planes on Tuesday night. Fires were started in the railway marshalling yards. An aircraft factory was set ablaze and it is believed a , power station was hit. Further raids were made also on Sicily. Fires were seen 80 miles away. Transports and stores ''were destroyed at Derna. Two British aircraft are missing. SERIES OF RAIDS FROM ITALY TO ABYSSINIA. HEAVY DAMAGE AT MANY POINTS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10.55 a.m.) RUGBY, November 14. A R.A.F. Middle East communique states: “Naples was again successfully attacked by heavy bombers of the R.A.F. during the night of November 11. Large fires were started in the marshalling yards and along railway lines. Bombs were also seen to fall on an airframe factory, and particularly violent explosions occurred when a building, believed to be a power station, was hit. ‘A seaplane base and railway station at Syracuse, in Sicily, was also attacked on the same night and fires, visible 80 miles away, were started. “Objectives in Libya were attacked on Tuesday night. At Benghazi stores and marshalling yards were bombed. One large bomb, which burst in the marshalling yards, extinguished three searchlights. “At Derna, stores and motor transport were bombed. Maryland bombers of the South African Air Force attacked dispersed aircraft at the Benina aerodrome on Thursday. Dust storms made visibility bad and although bombs were seen to fall among the ' aircraft, the damage could not be as- 1 sessed. During the same morning other Marylands of the South African Air : Force attacked barracks and dispersed J aircraft at the Berka aerodrome. A dir- - ect hit was obtained on barracks. ' “In Abyssinia, aircraft of the South ! African Air Force bombed and mach- 1 ine-gunned enemy positions at Fero Aber, on the north-east short of Lake Tana, on Tuesday. Trenches were hit 1 and a machine-gun post was silenced, i “From all the above operations, two ( of our aircraft are missing.” i