MANNHEIM AGAIN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 111, 14 May 1941, Page 5

MANNHEIM AGAIN

TARGET FOR THE ROYAL AIR FORCE INLAND DOCKS POUNDED 5 SIGNS OF GROWING NAZI ANGER BIG DEATH ROLL IN BERLIN. London, May 13. After bombing Hamburg and Bremen for three nights in succession, tile Royal Air Force last night switched its attention back to Mannheim, the great inland port on the Rhine. The second i largest inland docks in Europe are situated at Mannheim. Last night a number of fires were started in the main dock areas. Coblence and Cologne, also on the Rhine, were bombed at the same time. Rugby, May 12. Further massive attacks on Hamburg and Bremen are described in an Air Ministry communique, which states'. Last night, in very good weather, the Bomber Command again attacked objectives in Hamburg and Bremen. A heavy weight of high explosives and incendiaries was dropped on shipbuild.ing yards and industrial areas in both cities, and many fires.were left burning.

Small attacks were made on other targets, including Emden and the docks at Rotterdam. Four aircraft of the Bomber Command are missing. The Coastal Command last night attacked the docks at I’Jmuiden and the seaplane base at the island, oi Texel.

No aircraft arc missing from these operations.

The German High Command admitted that stronger R.A.F. formations have been back over Germany, heavily bombing Hamburg, Bremen and elsewhere. They left “some damage,” dead and wounded.—B.O.W. London, May 12. The R.A.F. raids on Berlin on May 9 caused particularly heavy damage near the Doenhoff Platz and the Potsdamer Platz, where a great number of buildings are destroyed, states a Zurich report. All neutral reports agree that the R.A.F. raids caused considerably more destruction than earlier ones. Increased death rolls at Hamburg, Kiel and Bremen are attributed to a fear by the population to take refuge in shelters, because they are often blasted by powerful British bombs. The construction of deep shelters is starting immediately, while evacuation schemes are being prepared for seaports and clock centres. Signs of Nazi anger at the British mr attacks are apparent, even from quotations from German newspapers put out by the German news agency. The Voelkischer Beobachter says: “Only an unsoldierly nation like Britain and a Government of profiteers and fortune-hunters such as Churchill’s can hope for any permanent success against the nerves of the civilian population by their methods of warfare.”

Another paper says: "Churchill should refrain from systematic attacks on residential quarters in German towns and civilian population. He and his criminal gang will be paid back in their own coin.”—U.P.A.

RAIDS ON R.A.F, BASES ATTEMPT TO SLOW DOWN ATTACKS ON GERMANY NINE RAIDERS DOWN. London, May 12. The German night bombers extensively attacked a large number of R.A.F. aerodromes, but “except at one or two points” the damage was not considerable. Berlin announced that the Luftwaffe, with the object of spiking the increasingly heavy R.A.F. raids on Germany, pounded 20 British airports last night, including many from which long-range craft take off. Last night’s raids on Britain cost the Germans a further nine bombers. During the first 11 nights of May, the Germans have lost 133 bombers, 43 more than the record number shot down during the whole of April.— U.P.A.