THE CHINA-MAIL, OCTOBER 30, 1940
GERMANY'S NAVAL DOCKYARDS ATTACKED Warships Under Construction Heavily Bombed BAD DAY Great Fires
Left At Kiel
FOR NAZI And Hamburg RAIDERS
Eleven enemy aircraft
WARSHIPS UNDER construction at Hamburg, Bremen and Kiel were heavily at- were shot down over Bri- tacked by aircraft of the British Bomber Com- mand on Monday night, it was announced in London yesterday.
tain yesterday, states an Air Ministry communi- que. Two of our fighters were lost but one pilot is safe.
A second enemy bomber was
destroyed during the night.
The enemy attempted four at
tacks on London yesterday using fighters or fighter-bombers.
A large number of our fight er squadrons engaged the enemy and few of the latter succeeded
in penetrating to the London
arca.
Extensive damage was caused by high ex- plosive bombs and fires were started by incen- diaries. Great fires visible for 40 miles were left burning in the Blom and Voss yards at Hamburg and also at Kiel, where repeated hits were scored in and around the Deutsche Werke yards.
The heavily defended naval evening before the raid on the base at
Wilhelmshaven, says shipyards developed. Only a small number of bombs
service. Fires were started here and was dropped, mostly in the out-the Air Ministry news
was attacked by relays of heavy also at Cologne where oil sup- skirts of the capital, and little
bombers for nearly an hour and plies were again the target. - damage and few casualties re-
salvos of high explosive bombs Reuter. ported.
were seen to burst on the dock sides and on barracks.
At the same time an unsuccess-
ful attack was made in the Ports-
- mouth area.--Reuter,
SHANGHAI PARTY
FOR CONSULS
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
The American Association and the American Chamber of Com- merce in Shanghai yesterday fet-
sorties arrived on the scene. The naval port at Emden was also attacked and bombs were seen to explode in the petrol storage area.
Fierce Fires
at
Fires started by the first at-
The mineral oil refinery fackers were still
burning strongly when later British Hamburg, extensively damaged in Sunday night's raid, was the ob- jective of a second striking force in the early evening shortly be- fore the raid on the shipyards be- gan. Visibility was good and, at- tacking out of a cloudless sky, the raiders straddled the refinery with high explosive bombs.
Oil Depots Bombed
a
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The pilot of one aircraft mak- Ing a second run over the tar get reported his bombs started a long row of fierce fires in the refinery area. Particularly intense anti-air- craft fire from heavy calibre guns was encountered by 'the Ham- burg raiders. Shell bursts from batteries which appeared to line both banks of the River Elbe fol- lowed them from the estuary up through the city.
Oil supply centres at Hamburg and Cologne were
also attacked
and fires started.
The raid on the Cologne refinery
began at 7.45 p.m. and after half
an hour of repeated attacks a red
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BRITISH UNIT REPORTED IN
BATTLE FOR CORFU
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glow, which could be seen even try at several points. from above the cloud layer, gave vance is continuing. evidence of the extent of the fire which had been raking below.
Alternative Targets
Air Attacks
The ad
"Despite bad weather the air force has repeatedly bombed mili- Other aircraft, prevented by tary objectives, as ordered, hitting weather conditions from locating docks, port and railway establish- their objectives, found and attack ments and causing fires in the ed alternative targets which in-harbour at Patras. cluded docks at Cuxhaven, indus- trial plant near Homburg and a carial concentration of fifty to sixty burges.
"Establishments along the Cor- naval inth Canal, as well as the base at Prevaza, and the airport at Tatoi, near Athens, were also bombed. All our 'planes return-
: In attacks on German railed safely."
communication centres hits were scored on railway yards at Krefeld and Coblenz and fires started in a goodsyard at Cologne,
Brutal Attack
The Italan raid on Patras was the most brutal attack from the and Nineteen aerodromes in Germany Budapest. reports assert 50 were
air yet made in the war, and in occupied territory were killed and 500 wounded. raided during the night. Direct
The crew of a British ship,. which arrived in the Colony last night from Kwong Chow Wan. state that some 30 vessels, warships and. trans- ports, were sighted yesterday morning steaming south, pre- sumably from Canton or from Formosa.
The American pilot killed when Japanese fighters shot down a C.N.A.C. plane
on
the Yunnan border was Mr. W. C. Kent, 35 years of age. He had been with the Com- pany for twelve months' an had been almost continusi ly in the Hong Kong-Chung- king service.
He leaves a widow and ar three-year-old son. resident in Hong Kong.
The prefix tapecial" to telegrams 15 by the "Sunday Herald" and. wood "China Mail" to indicate nows which... is strictly copyright. under the provi- sions of the Telecommunications Or dinance, 1930, and may not be reprint- There was no air raid on Athensed under any circumstances, aither hits were scored on a group of yesterday. International News wholly or in part, without prior ar hangars in a low-level attack on Service. the aerodrome at Point and at Evere, near Brussels, and fires broke out among airport buildings. -British Wireless.
BRITISH CHIEF OF STAFF IN ANKARA!
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA-MAIL");
General Arthur Smith, Chief of Staff to the British G.O.C., Mid-” dle East, who arrived in Ankara yesterday, is staying several days In the Turkish capital.
Shortly after arriving from Cairo, General Smith called on high Turkish military and civil authorities and then was guest at a banquet given by General Asším Gunouz, Assistant Chief of the Turkish General: Staff, Hlavns.
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