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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 28, 1941.
HAMBURG GETS AMERICAS
"BEAUTIFUL" NEW BOMBS
BERLIN AND BREMEN HAVE ALREADY FELT THE FORCE OF BRITAIN'S LATEST AND MOST POWERFUL BOMBS.
Last night it was the turn of Hamburg Germany's second largest city and greatest seaport to experience the devastation they
can cause.
It was a dark moonless
clouds from which the re- sults of the attack were
night when the bombers visible. arrived over the target The effect of one explosion was but there were clear described by a R.A.F. pilot as "a muss like a vol- patches through
the huge heaving
canle eruption which ruse settled down into a great red glow fully half a mile
in dia- meter."
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Terrific
and
The bursi of this particular bomb was also seen by Ser- geant-pilot in another 'plane who said: We were ten miles off but at that distance it was
even terrific."
Other reports spoke of fres raging in many parts of the city which was enveloped in thick smoke.
where observers
saw "buildings going up in the the R.A.F. one of
Reuter.
after
No Obstacle
One of the biggest Similar results were seon al single contingents of men Bremenhaven from Canada since the air Empire air training specials" had been dropped. scheme started has arriv- ed safely at a British port,| all eager to get into The Air Ministry news service action.
reports that night fighters were up were Canadians, again attempting to Intercept the Among them
British bombers as they neared Austral ans. New Zealanders, RAF. men from Britam who had the enemy coast, but save for one Can- ME10, which followed one aircraft comp.eted their training in
for half an hour and then broke ada, and a number of Americans.
off after a brief exchange of Bre, Typical of the latter is Clark, from California, who hasthey were no obstacle.
One
which attacked fought for China against the Ja
Bremerhaven dropped its load, panese, and in the Spanish War
and the effect was very much the He is to with the Republicans.
same as at Hamburg. plot planes from the factory to the airfield.
P.
The contingent, which was stal- ed to be well up to the standard of the first Dominion airmen to
-
aircraft
"I had with me one of the pow- erful bombs," said the pilot, "and burst I could see ก after it had great circle of red and on the r'm from the of it, quite a distance
ve in Britain, was welcomed by centre, I saw buildings going up in Wing-Commander the Duke of Hamilton, on behalf of the A: Council,
He said that under the Em- pire air training scheme. Britain could depend on obtaining of. ficient crews to man all the ma chines she could produce.--Reu
ter.
R.A.F. HITS AT GERMANY
During the week ending on Friday, heavy Royal Air Force raids on Ger- many and German cɔn- trolled Europe included Kiel and Wilhelmshaven.
Raids on Thursday night were on docks and sh pyards which were heavily bombed, four raids in three nights being on Brest and attacks on Cologne. Dusseldorf. Aachen, Osnanabruck, Dunkirk Ostend, Le Havre and Rotterdam. The raid on the Osnanabruck power station
especially noteworthy since it took place from a low level in daylight and the main building was seen to be hit and debris thrown high into the air.
was
Particular significance attaches too to the Brest raids in view of the continued presence there of the German battleships. Gneisenau and Scharnhorst.
Direct Hit
Awards to two British airmer on Thursday: revealed that in an earlier raid on Brest, an extreme- ly heavy bomb dropped from 1,000 feet scored a direct hit on one of the battleships.
The week was also notable for a number of attacks made on enemy coastal shipping off Nor- Low Countries und way, the France.
"Nine vessels were:sunk or left. sinking; <three more probably destroyed after direct hits and many others damaged, meda From all these extensive opera- tions; 19 British aircraft are miss. ing Three German aircraft were definitely destroyed and others damaged. Reuter.
the air. Although I have been on 31 raids I have never seen any- thing to match the effect of this bomb."--British Wireless
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SHARP RAID
ON WEST
MIDLANDS
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"}
Waves of German bom- bers roared over an un- identified West Midland
town yesterday morning as other enemy raiders
The attacks came a few hours were active over London.
after the Air Ministry's announce- ment that Berlin, Kiel, Bremen- haven and the German-occupied coast were battered in French night and day raids.
Nazi 'planes also bombed the district
the Merseyelde
and western coast near Liverpool. It is reported that the Mid- lands attack followed the style of the usual German night blitz.
It was a short but sharp raid in
pre- of incendiaries thousands ceded the dropping of high ex- International News plosives. Service.
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