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General-Sources who previously have criticised our bombing now state that since December raids, especially on Bremen, Ludwigshafen, Cologne and Mannheim, have assumed a different character. The bombing accuracy is described as excellent, and the population of the above places are stated to show definite signs of anxiety and unrest.
Occupied France.
Rennes. In the attack on the 14th/15th November the runways at the aerodrome suffered considerable damage. An aircraft on the ground was destroyed and several Germans were killed.
Brest. On the 7th/8th December the wood-working shop at the Arsenal was destroyed by fire, and on the 12th/13th December a considerable number of electric engines in the arsenal were destroyed and fires broke out in certain of the buildings.
Photographs taken by P.R.U. disclose that the lower part of the large floating crane in the torpedo-boat station harbour is completely submerged, its pontoon presumably having been damaged. No attempt is being made to repair the three large oil tanks which have been destroyed at the oil depot. Considerable damage has been done to the buildings adjoining the West jetty and in the neighbourhood of the dry dock to the East of the Grand Bassin du Nord-Est.
Mining.
The Swedish steamer Berta, of 1,215 tons, was sunk by a mine on the 11th January near the entrance to Copenhagen harbour. On the 12th January a German motor vessel Brechsee, of 688 tons, found the ice in the South Sound too strong for her engines. She was carried into shallower water, where a magnetic mine exploded and sank her. The recent easterly wind caused the north-going stream in the Sound to carry away the navigational marks showing swept channels, and efficient sweeping is being interfered with.
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