THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 14, 1941.
R.A.F. STRIKES HARD AT REICH
Hundreds Of Bombers Over Bremen And Berlin
WHEN THE
GOEBBELS Blazes In
In Berlin
TIME COMES BURBLES
Four centuries of Ger-
"When the time comes man history are in the the R.A.F. in the Middle course of revision, declar- East will strike the Gered Joseph Goebbels, Nazi mans as hard as it has Propaganda Minister, struck the Italians," de- speaking in Vienna clared Air Chief Marshal the occasion of the anni- Sir Arthur Longmore, versary of the Austrian Commander-in-Chief of anschluss.
on
the RAF in the Middle Goebbels described the Germans East, in an interview with as the greatest and soundest prople, the Greek newspaper "Ethnos" yesterday.
A: ked to what he attributed
defeat
Italian of the force, Sir Arthur replied "In any opniu it is due to the deprta of
pared feaders and lark, og at Kotisation,
on earth and the German army as! the best in the world.
THERE REMAINED THE LAST ENEMY ENGLAND.
Referring to Vienna's problems, he said everyone had burdens but they should remember that Fuchrer bore the greatest burden of them all and was himself a San of Austria. Reuter.
· 10 addition, Italian almen have Bot the high mrade and conviction that one is fighting for Cottage which rome from the a just cause.
HERES
Reuter.
Visible Over 100 Miles
Away
A FORMIDABLE STRIKING FORCE OF BRITISH BOMBER COMMAND AIRCRAFT SWEPT OVER GERMANY ON WEDNES- DAY NIGHT TO ATTACK HAMBURG, BREMEN AND BERLIN FROM SOON AFTER NIGHTFALL TO AN HOUR OR SO BEFORE DAWN.
Together the three attacks made the heaviest blow British bomb- ers have yet struck at Germany. Over each objective there was a concentrated barrage, and to reach their objectives in Berlin the British bombers had to penetrate a continuous curtain fire.
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The attack on Berlin lasted several hours and British crews were able to pick out streets, railways and lakes around the city al- most as if they had been flying in daylight.
Fragments of shells hit the wings and under-carriage of one British 'plane but no- thing prevented the pilot and bomb aimer completing their task.
OF AIR- CRAFT OVER GERMANY, THE
They saw their bombs CONCENTRATION burst on the target in BOMBER COMMAND ALSO various parts of the city DESPATCHED A NUMBER OF and the glow in the sky LOGNE, WHERE MANY could be seen from 100 WERE SCORED miles on the way home.
OBJECTIVE
HEAVY BOMBERS TO BOU-
DOCKS.
HITS
ON THE
British fighters escorted a bomb-
ONE PILOT SWOOPED DOWN er squadron across the Channel THROUGH THE BARRAGE
soon after midday yesterday to AND MACHINE-GUNNED HIS attack the German-occupied aero- FROM JUST drome at Calais, says an Air Min- ABOVE THE ROOF-TOPS AND istry communique. THEN FLEW ON TO ATTACK BARRACKS OUTSIDE THE CITY FROM THE SAME LOW LEVEL.
Long Half-Hour
Offensive Patrols
Bombs were seen to burst on the aerodrome and among aircraft dispersed at one end of it.
Other fighters carried out of- One pilot, whose aircraft was fensive patrols over the Channel caught in a cone of searchlights and Northern France during the for half an hour, said it was the afternoon and destroyed an enemy longest half hour he had ever fighter. known. He had been hovering around the outskirts of Berlin pinpointing his position and then
cer.
An
enemy bomber which crossed the south coast was promptly Intercepted and shot down in the sea.
One British fighter is missing
he started to fly across the city.;
A.A. fire grew flercer and fler-
Bursts were all around and from these operations.--Reuter. clouds of smoke seemed to fill the air.
The light of searchlights passed the shadow of the aircraft against clouds of smoke so that at times. it seemed as if there were three
or four other aircraft flying in formation around it.
junction saw incendiaries hit the
SPITFIRE
VICTORY
One pilot attacking a rallway The victory of two Spit- track and soon afterwards there fire pilots who destroyed was a tremendous explosion, fol-two "ME109's, part of a
explosions lowed by small
fifteen minutes.
Bremen Onslaught
An important plant for
for
a
small enemy formation
bomb attempting to
coast aerodrome the south manufacture of war material was yesterday morning, was the chief objective at Bremen. witnessed by the duty trated attack were among the pilot of the station. most spectacular ever reported by The enemy came in from the
where the results of the concen-
British pilots.
Bursts were
seen over
the
sea
the at low level and
two Spitfires at once dived to attack. One picked on a straggler which he chused across the aerodrome
whole area of the works. Many bulidings received direct hita and were seen to catch fire. Elsewhere in Bremen, says the and sent crashing into the sea.
Meanwhile the other Spitfire Air Ministry news service, the first signs of trouble were long pilot had succeeded in breaking
Air Combats
the
lines of bursting incendiaries up and turning the rest of
now scattered formation. across industrial objectives and
He engaged two raiders over then the buildings themselves
at the aerodrome and, firing were seen to catch fire,
both, saw one ME109 dive down to within 800 feet of the ground with white smoke pouring from it A few moments later this machine was seen to orash on land at Hythe. Both Spitfires landed on the aerodrome safely after this suc- cessful engagement.
The defences of Bremen were almost as vigorous as those of Berlin and a number of 'German fighters attempted to intercept the British bombers, there being se- veral inconclusive engagements,
Hamburg, too, had a sleepless night and just after 10 p.m. the Arat British raiders were drop- the ping their bombs among docks and shipping yards. Fires flared high and some pl- lots reported seeing them clearly 70 and 00 miles away.
AS WELL AS THIS GREAT!
Lato yesterday afternoon one Spitfire pilot was killed in ac- tion over the south-east, · const. when he attacked two ME109's, one of which he damaged, after-.
Into wards sending the other the son in a vertion)· diva. British Wireless,