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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 18, 1940.

BATTERING OF HAMBURG

Mass RA.F. Raids For Third Successive Night

Docks And Factories Attacked

THE R.A.F.'S BATTERING OF HAMBURG ON SATURDAY NIGHT LASTED. SEVERAL HOURS' AND A CON CENTRATED ATTACK WAS MADE ON ALL ITS. GREAT AND- VARI- OUS INDUSTRIES.

At intervals throughout the night a power- ful force of bombers flew over the city and suburbs.

Success varied with changing weather but many pilots found periods when, in the words of one, conditions for bombing were perfect.

and communications Squadrons attacking the Blohm dustries and Voss shipbuilding yards saw wherein riverside districts bursts in many parts of the area fcred greatly. and explosions followed accom- panied by great billowing red flames.

A direct hit was scored on a neighbouring aircraft factory.

Thousand Incendiaries

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SEVEN SWISS SENT TO GAOL

FOR LIFE

SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

Found guilty of at- tempting sabotage against the country's defences, seven Swiss. subjects, including two recently returned from abroad, were sentenced in Berne yesterday to hard lab- our for life by court. martial, according to a communique releas- ed by the Swiss Gen- eral Staff-Havas.

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| It is here that traffic is parti- high explosive bombs.

Just before midnight other cularly dense for. Hamburg is a natural link between. ocean, river bombers attacked from various and rail traffic. Factories and heights works in the Altona dis- warchouses cover the ground. trict where several bursts were

Soon after dark the Rhenaniascerr on the target.

the Ossag mineral oil works in

Another mineral oil factory was Wilhelmsburg district was at-one of the last targets to be raid-| In addition to many high ex-tacked by a large force of need only an hour or two before

of dium bombers and bursts were dawn. plosive bombs another force heavy bombers dropped over a seen on the target in spite thousand incendiaries on the great cloud banks, riverside railway goods yards in the Billwarder district.

About the same time squadrons were attacking Gaps in the clouds closed as the way goods yards in the attacks ended, says the Air Min-Wilhelmsburg district and istry, and made it impossible to the Schlink factory for the observe the full results but enough facture of edible oil fats. was seen to make it certain that: considerable damage was done.- Reuter.

Largest Ever

of Good results were observed after bombs had been dropped on other important targets in the Vedde! rail-and Peute industrial areas to the same south of the riversider

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also

Ships Bombed

Successful attacks were also. made against shipping during the night and one aircraft bombed the three supply ships of about: four

STOP PRESS

Strong Forces · Later various targets in Bllwarder and Moorfleth river side distribts. were attacked for were seen at the mouth of the hours. Here over Elbe. The observer saw two The raid on Hamburg was car-nearly two

were bombs burst close to the star- ried out by the greatest force one thousand incendiaries which has ever raided that city dropped and many fires seen board and port sides of the lead-

raid and further details of the

A strong force concentrated on ing ship." are given by an Air Ministry the great railway yard beside the Half an hour after this attack that river in the Billwarder district, another bomber sighted a mer- news report, which states at intervals from just after night- identifying the target through chant ship of about 8,000 tons and Here again one of the bombs dropped: was fall until six in the morning a gaps in the cloud.

thousand incendiaries reported by the rear, gunner as a concentrated attack was made on nearly n a great number of the city's in- were dropped as well as tons of direct hit.-British Wireless.

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