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Air Blitz On North Of France
YESTERDAY WAS ONE OF THE BUSIEST DAYS FOR THE FIGHTER COMMAND SINCE THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN IN AUTUMN LAST YEAR, AND AS THE FIRST STREAK OF DAWN WAS SPREADING ACROSS THE SKY SPITFIRES WERE ON THE WAY TO FRANCE, | STATES THE AIR MINISTRY NEWS SERVICE. From then until dark the offensive was kept up without a stop. Many pilots were over enemy territory more than once in the day but there were few combats.
Enemy fighters seen were near- ly always in the minurity and mostly avoided the British for- nations.
One Canadian sergeant, how- ever, found himself in a dogfight I with several Messerschmitts, one
of which he shot down besides | damaging another.
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Twice during the morning bom. bers were safely escorted to and from targets as far inside France as London is from the south coast.
Other fighters took a force of bombers to the Brest arca,
|R.A.F.'S
Shuttle
Service
Lunchtime air activity
where an important aerodrome is reported to have been
was
successfully attacked.
Bremen Bombed
Australia.
so intense over the south-
east coast yesterday that the sky was full of 'planes.
ROBERT MONTGOMERY IN LONDON
The film star, Lieu- teriant Robert Mont- gomery, has arrived in London by bomber to take up
an appoint- ment QS Assistant Naval Attache at the United States Em- bassy.
He was on officer in the American Field Service Ambulance Corps in France at the beginning of the war.
MOTOR LAUNCHES FOR FREE FRENCH
NAVY
A division of motor launches built in Britain and manned by
Bretons of the Free French Navy
In the evening British fighters were again over France in force.
In this second air sweep of the for service with British nava! Bremen -port was bombed in day-the earlier bad been at dawn forces were blessed by & French the afternoon by Fortress air-Spitfires and Hurricanes were naval padre at a south coast port craft, the captain of which neverywhere. They skimmed over yesterday and they were commis- civil life was a sheep farmer in the sea and hopped over roof:tous stoned on behalf of General de while stepped up above them were Gaulle by Vice-Admiral Muselier, He said there was thick cloud three more layers of aircraft, the commanding Free French naval in banks on the journey over highest up no more than glistening forces in Britain. the North Sea with occasional
Each boat is named white specks.
after 3 clear patches through which the
-Bretan saint and the ceremony sea could be seen. The tempera-coast during the morning seemed commemorated by all Bretons. It
Rumblings felt on the British Hell on St. Anne's Day, which ture was minus 55 Centigrade.
to indicate that the RAF have was the first ceremony of the had a busy time over the Channel King in Britain. ports and their immediate hinter-ries a flag presented by the As- Each ship car-
"We followed the river down land.
sociation of Bretons in the Free to Bremen," said the pilot, The R.AF. have virtually run a French forces British Wireless, "where cloud was much lighter.| shuttle service to the Continent
"Peaceful Sunday"
We had a perfect view of the ever since daylight yesterday the houses. port which resembled 庭 long | morning and are still doing so, but lumpy leg sticking out to- wards the sea.
"Our bombs fell in the middle of the port..
"There was no fire from A.A. guns and we saw no fighters. In fact it was a peaceful Sunday afternoon "-Reuter.
ONLY TWO
FIGHTERS
LOST
The sky has been so alive with in the afternoon activity was fighters that people save not had maintained and flights of half a
bombers a dozen fighters at a time passed to and fro in an almost endless. stream.
chance to see what were flying above them.
Scores of bombers and fighters passed over the East coast shortly It was an amazing sight as these before one o'clock in the after- fighters hurled over the sea to noon. They appeared to be fly- come back half an hour latering in two different directions skimming the water as they came due cast and south east.-British in from the east before lifting over Wireless.
GERMANS FEELING STRAIN IN LIBYA
"During the day the Royal Air Force has car- |ried out a series of offen- |sive operations over the Channel and Northern expert opinion in London, of the morale in the German forces round. Tobruk have been that [France on a considerablé scale," states last night's they are much disheartened and suffering Air Ministry communique considerably from the hardships of desert issued in London.
BRITISH OBSERVATIONS, according to
"Several fighter: sweeps were
ed Blenheim bombers which
tory,
warfare.
made and our fighters also escort- This seems to be borne out by an article facked targets in occupied terri-in Voelkischer Beobachter“, from a corres-
pondent in the Libyan Desert, who writes
Our soldiers in conversation often ask if people at home realise the extent of their suffering and what desert warfare means.
Bombs were dropped on dustrial targeta. in' the Lille area, on the Gerinan aerodrome at
Lannion in Britanny, on railway communications at several points
and on shipbuilding yards at Le Trait, near Rouen, :-
"Several months ago the men of the Africa Corps laughed when the difficulties of desert Oghing were explained to them. That was before they were sent out to Libya but now this scaming attitude hos
"Little opposition from fight
encounterad and there wore few combats. One enemy 'fighter" was destroyed.. GR
A Fortress on reconnaissance in the afternoon bombed objec- disappeared. tives at Bremeni.`
"They, heye giso bpen-con- stantly worried by the deteriora- tion of their war material in the climate. Men who ɑnly: "knew: the beauty of the desert from films now have to face the stark reality....
In contrast British reports
of
"An incredible difficulty lles in "Our lossas in all these opera- firstly the tough, fierce ~ Dghting tions were two fighters."-Reuterspirit of the enemy, and their the morale of the Tobrukt garrison greater experience of desert war- show that they are cheerful in fare, secondly, in the intense spite of the heat and the length of weakening heat and sandstorms the defence. Although they have PYHRRIC VICTORY? and Onally in the nerve-racking sustained more than 1,200 air at
solitude of the desert.
tacks and flerce artillary duals the (SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL") - "None should underestimate morale of the Australian, British Finland is wildly rejoicing over the extreme strain caused by the and Indian troops remains un- the capture of Viborg. It is ad- sudden surprise attacks of the abated. mitted in Helsinki, howover, that enemy. Our soldiers must be The Italians and Germans have the Russians demolished the alart day and night and for many been completely outclassed in city before it fell-International months now have been engaged patrol work, especially in night News Service.:
in a war of defence,
patrols.—British Wireless,