RAID ON OSLO

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 228, 28 September 1942, Page 5

RAID ON OSLO

NORWEGIAN CAPITAL GESTAPO HEADQUARTERS BOMBED QUISLING TAKES SHELTER IN CELLARS (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Recd. 9.5 p.m.) Rugby, Sept. 26. An R.A.F. attack on Oslo yesterday was officially announced by the Air Ministry. During a rally of National Socialists yesterday afternoon four bombers attacked the Nazi headquarters in the city. At the time of the attack a meeting of party leaders was being held nearby. Bombs were dropped from about. 1000 ft. and hits were seen on the Gestapo building. One of our aircraft is missing but the others returned safely.

The German allegation that three of our attacking bombers were shot down confirms the effect of the attack. The Air Ministry’s news service says the aircraft were Mosquitos. This is the first time this new twin-engined light bomber has been mentioned on operational duties. There was brilliant sunshine over the Norwegian capital dur_V' Iho attack. A flight of Fockwvlfe 190’s attacked them a few miles from Os'o. when the plane mentioned was lost. The remaining three aircraft bombed from a low level and , saw bombs strike the Gestapo building. An Oslo agency message states that the bombers reached Oslo unobserved and sireqs were sounded only when the explosions rocked the University Building, where the Quisling meeting was taking place. Quisling, with his bodyguard and audience, took to the cellars. The first alarm was at 5 p.m. and another was sounded just, under an hour later, ruining arrangements for a big narade of his followers before Quisling, which was timed for 6.30 p.m.—8.0.W. R.A.F. RUINS KARLSRUHE TOLL OF LAST RAID Zurich, Sent. 25. Kye-witnesses declare that in the recent R.A.F. raid on Karlsruhe two-thirds of the city was either destroyed or so badly damaged that olily the outline of the ruined buildings remain. The damage was among the heaviest ever inflicted on a German city. The dead are estimated at from 8000 to 10,000. Hundreds were drowned in the shelters through the bursting of watermains and drainage pipes. The fires were so extensive that brigades were summoned from Heidelberg and Stuttgart. Bombs battered the industrial quarter, the port, and thv heart of the city. Many workers have now been transferred from Karlsruhe to factories in Venice and Milan. NEW MOSQUITO BOMBER STILL ON SECRET LIST (Reed. 8.55 p.m. London, Sept. 25. The Press Association aeronautical correspondent says the Oslo raid is the first to mention that the Mosquito is being used on the R.A.F. operational service. The Mosquito is a twin-engined light bomber still on the secret list. It is •/ident that the Mosquito is very fas., since three eluded Fockewulfe 190’s, Germany’s newest and fastest fighters.