THE WAR

Serial Waves, Volume 2, Issue 5, 25 September 1940, Page 4

THE WAR

Air Ministry Announces -This afternoon our bombers 5 escorted by fighters, attacked enemy minesweepers in the English Channel. Two vessels were hit & another was damaged by a bomb which burst close to it. In an air battle which took place during the operation, one of cur bombers was shot down;, and one of the enemy was also destroyed. The air attack on Berlin last night by the RAP was part of a large scale operation. Power houses? gasworks, raiway yards in Berlin, all received visiting cards from the R A F & were observed to be holding firework displays in celebration. German occupied channel ports received their quota of bombs, while '•< further eggs (no wonder there are none left fox* the troops at breakfast time) were laid over the Tempelhoff Aerodrome, the B M W Aero Engine Works and the Siemens Electrical works? Mo machine returned with a rt duck% so these birds likewise will be unprocurable so fax* as our menu is concerned. The RAF coastal command bombed the naval station at Brest early yesterday morning, flame-s being later visible over 30 miles out at pea. A Cairo communique reports no change in the western desert*; Durci ng Sunday evening, our artillery silenced some enemy batteries. Matruh was raided 4 times on Sunday night? but there were no casualties. Nothing tc report on other fronts. , I Every second London child is now accomodated in a country district, > and further evacuation plans are now being put into operation. The Lauta aluminium works, which were bombed by the RAY on Sunday night are said to account for just under 30 % of-Germany’s total output of aluminium. Australian dried fruit producers ( mostly returned men ) have given £2400 to the Lord Mayor's fund for the relief of London Air Raid, Victims. Last Friday, for the first time, the Germans admit greater German than British air losses. The Minister of Shipping, in a review of the year’s war effort, discloses that, in spite of the very great difficulties encountered, the present position in regard to shipping is satisfactory.