OVER 100 RAIDS ON NAPLES

Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22137, 8 September 1943, Page 5

OVER 100 RAIDS ON NAPLES

TERRIFIC POUNDING OF CONTINENT CONTINUES ROUND-CLOCK OFFENSIVE—SKY FILLED WITH PLANES (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received September 8, 1 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 7 The Rome radio declared: “After over 100 air raids Naples today is a mere heap of ruins.” The Channel sky was refilled with bombers and fighters from daybreak, when the round-the-clock offensive over the Continent was continued. Great formations of bombers passed over Folkestone, while large numbers of Spitfires crossed and re-crossed the Channel throughout the operations. A German communique states that heavy damage was done irf a Royal Air Force raid on Munich. The communique says: “The British bomb terror was directed last night against the population of Munich. High explosives and incendiaries destroyed many houses and hit hospitals, churches and schools. The German air defences prevented the raiders from making concentrated attack against the town and they partly jettisoned their bombs over a number of small localities and villages.” It adds: “The Luftwaffe last night bombed congested enemy air bases in the Cambridge area.” A Royal Air Force reconnaissance pilot reported that Mannheim and Ludwigshafen were still burning this morning, nearly 36 hours after the Royal Air Force raid on Sunday night.