DAYLIGHT ATTACKS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 180, 2 August 1940, Page 5

DAYLIGHT ATTACKS

RAIDS BY R.A.F. NORTHERN FRANCE AND HOLLAND [ British Official Wireless.] Received Aug. 1, 5.5 p.m. RUGBY, July 31. A communique issued by the Air Ministry states that.R.A.F. bombers carried out daylight attacks throughout yesterday on military objectives in northern France and Holland. Damage was done to sidings at Ostend, to dispersed aircraft on the Querqueville aerodrome near Cherbourg, and to hangars and other aircraft at Stingelbert and Boulogne. In the course of reconnaissance and escort duties, Coastal Command aircraft attacked gun emplacements on the Norwegian coast and a, supply ship off Haugesund, north of Stavanger. The Emden naval base was also attacked. One British plane is missing. Night operations were curtailed owing to bad weather, but attacks were made on oil refineries at Homburg, in the Ruhr, and at Monheim, near Dusseldorf, on a goods yard in Soest, and on aerodromes at Duisberg, Antwerp, and Courtrai. No aircraft were lost in these night operations.

■ FURTHER RAIDS y A FEW CASUALTIES e LONDON, July 31. a The Air Ministry reports that enemy J, aircraft bombed the south-east and s south-west of England and south Wales, during last night. There was t little damage and no casualties ret suited. it Spitfires and Hurricanes went up when a German plane attacked shipn ping in the south-east of England, c Bomb explosions were beard inland. The raider disappeared. A German plane over the southeastern area dropped four bombs near houses, setting tire to one and damaging others. Two people were admitted to hospital. Inhabitants of a town in the southwest went to the shelters three times during the night. British fighters were active. No bombs were dropped. Waves of bombers attempted to penetrate inland across the Welsh coast. The formations were broken up. Bombs fell at sea and near a lifeboat station. There were no casualties. A Berlin communique states: “Our air arm on the night of July 30 bomb?s ed the harbours at Swansea and Plye mouth and an aeroplane factory at k Filton (Gloucestershire). Only a few e British planes raided western Germany and there was no material dam- 1 i- age and no casualties. Our fighters e shot down two planes for certain, n Twenty-one British planes were shot down on July 29.” e AMERICANS IN R.A.F. e •AMAZING" NUMBERS. 1w Received Aug. 1, 6.10 p.m. LONDON, July 3.1. v’, Professor Arthur Newell, the American political observer, said that I, the numbers of Americans volunteering for the Royal Air Force would z s amaze Britain. is .n ;; 240 PLANES LOST IN MONTH re GERMANS PAY FOR RAIDS 1- ON BRITAIN [ British Oliicial Wireless, j RUGBY, July 31. An Air Ministry communique, naming the loss of German aircraft during July as at least 240, states that many more enemy aircraft have been put out of action in the air or on the ground, but the figure given took into account only those which were confirmed as having been destroyed. The losses given account for 600 officers and men killed or taken prisoner.