* THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 17, 1941. -
Wilhelmshaven Left Waste Of
'More Like
Stoking
Than Bombing'
AFTER THE FIRST WAVE OF BRITISH AIRCRAFT HAD ARRIVED OVER WILHELMS- HAVEN ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT IT WAS ONLY NECESSARY FOR THE STRONG FORCE WHICH FOLLOWED TO FIND THE DUTCH
MINISTRY COAST, SAYS THE AIR
NEWS SERVICE.
From them onwards they were led by the glare in the sky right across Holland and 50 miles into Germany to a waste of flames which was all many pilots could see of the main base of the German North Sea Fleet.
HISTORY
REPEATS ITSELF
The German public is wondering once more about when the much pro- mised invasion of Britain is to take place.
to
The Nazi
"Voelkische organ Beobachter" yesterday devoted a leading article in an attempt "prove" that there has been no in- vasion because it is better to keep the people of the British Isles "under nervous strain" by a threatened invasion.
Neutral observers.
however.
say that the nervous strain is telling more on the Germans than on the British.
The Turkish newspaper "Ulus" rays that the German Press, which Chief focus ›ľ attack WASI Though the moon was still Bauhaven,
has recently been urging imme- where
crewded shining are
brightly the smoke of diate action before the United slipways, docks. engineering these fires hid part of the town States help can materialise, has works, storehouses, assembling | but pilots had no real difficulty in
given a picture of a nation form sheds. armour-plate shops, foun- finding their
way to the naval
by anxiety and concern. dries, iron works, gun stores and dockyards and their attack was
"Ulus" notes the resemblance a floating dock for the large st as successful within its limits as with the position in 1917. warships.
the previous large scale raid
All this area way one raging fire.
A pilot said: "It was more like stoking than bombing. We Just shovelled our bombs into the fires and watched them increase."
Two Attacks
Fires covered thousands of
Last Message
The weather favoured both at- tacks and throughout the night visibility was excellent.
One pilot had the unpleasant square yards within which lay times by searchlights while A.A. experience of being held four а large proportion of Wij.
guns blazed away at him. helmshaven's military objec. tives. Huge explosions also were heard.
The first attack lasted from 8 p.m. till midnight.
The second attack, between 5 and 6 am. yesterday morning, started many new fires and also encouraged flames which were still burning.
Few targets
in Germany are so well defended and pilots had to pass through prodigious barrage. Reuter.
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Instance of Disaster
In the dry dock of Marinewerfte 24 submarines can be built at the same time and the harbour itself. with great floating cranes, was designed to take the largest war- ships.
The main railway station at Wilhelmshaven lies a few hundred yards to the south-west but there are power stations closer still both to the north and south of the bar- bour. To the east there are many naval barracks.
When they returned there was no need to ask pilots, which of this huge collection of objectives | had been hit or set ablaze. Areas of raging fire which they report- ed covered thousands of square yards on each side of the harbour and a large proportion of the mi- litary objectives of Wilhelmshaven lay within the area.
At times the sleeping flames and black smoke above them obscur- ed all detail but at intervals some signal instance of disaster pre- vailed above the general confia- gration.
A minute after one pilot had soon his high explosive bomba burst there was an astonishing “disturbance among the
flames and debris was thrown by the explosion a thousand feet into the air. Three minutes later the same thing happeħed again. The skeleton of a burnt-out building made black silhouette in the midst of half a square mile of fire wst of Bauhaven. By the power station to the north of the harbour. the flames burnt · even more fiercely than elsewhere.
Bright Moon
As the British aircraft left all such details were swiftly lost to sight but the blaze remained to light the sky behind them. for 130 miles on the homeward journey.
This first attack of the night lasted from eight until soon after midnight. A second attack
was
made between five and six in the this morning and plots over at hour saw the area still encircled by wide ramparts of fire.
From an aircraft which is miss- ing there came a last message home to say its mission had been completed. British Wireless.
|
In 1917, the paper says, Ger- many dominated Europe but wae faced with growing support for the Allies from the United States,
That was her undoing, und might well be again, for when a nation is forced to carry out her plans she is bound to lose half her chances of success. - Reuter.
NAVAL PROGRAMME
APPROVED
the
The Naval Committee of House of Representatives in Wash- ington yesterday unanimously ap- proved the request of the authori- ties for $909.000,000 to spend on 400 relatively small new ships a quantity of linen, vahied at $30,¦ mainly submarine chasers, mine-
Mr. E. Smith, of No. 8, Hillword Read, has reported the theft of
from his residence, between 3,30 p.m. and 4 pm. yesterday.
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