WEATHER DEFIED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1941, Page 5

WEATHER DEFIED

BRITISH AIR OFFENSIVE EMDEN AND OTHER PORTS BOMBED. SCATTERED ENEMY RAIDS ON ENGLAND. LONDON, November 16. In spite of heavy weather and severe icing conditions, the Royal Air Force bombed Emden and other ports in North-West Germany last night and the attacks were pushed home. Docks at Boulogne were also attacked and mines were sown in enemy waters. Four British bombers are missing. A few- solitary raiders dropped bombs at points around the English coast, but no one was hurt and no damage was done. Today an enemy bomber was shot down off the north-east coast of England. British fighter planes in recent times have destroyed 11 enemy anti-aircraft ships and probably sixteen more. In addition, they have certainly damaged eighteen of these vessels. DARING EXPLOITS SPITFIRES OVER NORTHERN FRANCE. CLOSE APPROACH TO TARGETS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) RUGBY, November 16. Spitfires in one operation over Northern France yesterday left a trail of wreckage behind. One coast target—a brick building on the side of 'a railway—was left burning after only one attack. Black and white smoke poured from it. This building is situated in a small town in the Cherbourg peninsula and troops, who were in the town square, scattered in all directions during the Spitfires’ attack. In another case a target, which had a large chimney on one side, was shot up from 1 ground level. The chimney and the top windows of the building were seen to be hit and the building immediately burst into flames. One aircraft damaged its radiator, through hitting a tree in its low-level attack, but all returned from this operation safely. ATTACKS CONTINUED MANY TARGETS IN ITALY & LIBYA. LONDON, November 16. The Italian port of Brindisi, from from supply ships set out for North Africa, was attacked by British bombers on Friday night. Marshalling yards at Catania, in Sicily, were raided on the same night, as were some of the enemy’s Libyan bases. At Benghazi the central mole was again hit and at Berka a violent explosion was caused in a store dump.