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IMPORTANT GAS WORKS IN BERLIN BLASTED BY AIR FORCE IN MIDNIGHT ATTACK

WIRELESS

BY STATION BOMBED FLEET AIR ARM AIRCRAFT IN NORWAY: TRANSPORTS ATTACKED

LONDON, Sept. 11 (Router) — A statement by the Air Minis- try news service, giving details about the raids on Germany' says that the objectives in Berlin were the important" Leukoln •Kay works in the suburb of the city.

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Bombs were seen to burst on the target and heavy explosions | occurred during the attack, which began about midnight and was] carried out la the face of intense anti-aircraft fire,

The night's heaviest attack was On September 3' Skuas and directed against naval dockyards Swordfish left two enemy supply at Hamburg, where some high ex- ships sinking and abandoned by plosives

Incendiary their crews All our aircraft re-¦ bombs were dropped in half an, turned safely,

many and

Warehouses

on

DIRECT HIT

ON SCHOOL

LONDON, Sept. 11 (Reuter) —Many bodies have hitherto been recovered from a school in East London which WES wrecked by a direct hit dur- ing Tuesday night's rald,

Some of the persons tricated from beneath the mam of twisted girders and debris were still alive, bat It is understood that they died while being conveyed in an balances to hospital

CLEAN-UP IN RUMANIA

REORGANISATION

abolished

hour of almost continuous bomb- On August 28 Skuas set are to ardment.

all tanks in the Bergen arca and Bakenbaten to a motor patrol vessel and also OF THE ARMY were set alight and some of the scored direct hits or a 2,000 tons out in supply ship. All our aircraft re-

BUCHAREST, Sept. 11 (Reuter). many fires which broke the target area were still visible turned safely.

A sudden halt has been,, made long after the raiders had left-On August 19 Skuas attacked in the lavish state expenditure. the city.

two 3,000 tons transports and ob- the Crown Counci Aerodromes were attacked at talned direct bits on, one of them and the Youth Movement is sup-- Diepholz, Haya, Celle, Cuxhaven and also, attacked oil tanks north pressed, and Schipol

of Haugesund. AJI OUT aircraft General Antonescu, the new At-Calais.- barges were bombed returned..safely.m

-Rumanian dictator; has initiated On August 8 Skuas set fire for over an hour by relays of:

of to an enquiry into the fortunes aircraft which attacked in a an oil depot at Dolvlk. All

our all the State's ministers of the. series of steep and shallow dives aircraft returned safely.

last decade and also the expendi EERIE EFFECT

SINKING CONDITION

ture of the Palace Secretariat. The eerie effect produced by On August. 1 Skuas successfully

General Antonescu's main con- their bombs when they attacked bonibed a wireless station and. A

cert, however, is declared to be Boulogne on Tuesday night was supply ship of 4.000 tons. The

Teorganisation of the army, described by Coastal Command "latter was left in a sinking con- pilots in an Air

He will dismiss. 11 high officers) Ministry news dition

and abandoned by her service bulletin.

crew. All our aircraft returned, charged with grave incapacity The bombardment was carried safely.

which is alleged to have led to out by Blenheims which found Many offensive operations.. were the lost territory. the targets through thick screens carried out previous to this.

of drifting cloud.

"As fire broke out in a building on the main quays, actual flames could not be seen but through the cloud banks there was a sus tained and radiant brilliance.” sald one pilot.

These repeated offensive actions are adding considerably to the enemy's difficulties in an area where. sea transport and of supplies are vital.

OVER 309 RAIDS Apart altogether from" attacks He added: "Twenty minutes on military' objectives in German later, the scene, from above was occupied territory and bombint more vivid Other Blenheims of troop concentrations.navat came in to wind up the attack, and military formations and Salvoes of bombs fell on and dumps in Germany Itself, the R | around an artillery arsenal. and AF have, during the period then the clouds were pierced by mentioned in the German wife- shafts of crimson light from the less, carried out 139 raids on recurrent explosions" among the aerodromes, 54 on aircraft works, enemy's ammunition stores.”

57 on munitions works and chemi-

on air cal or supply depots, 139 oll crait distributed nine tons of plants or depots, 13 on blast fur bombs over a concentration of naces, 18 on power stations and barges and ships at Calais. 25 on miscellaneous targets. Ostend and Flushing.

Comment is further made in These attacks were made by London that casualties so slight Blenheims, Beauforts and Fleet as these given by the German Air Arm Albacores and Swordfish. wireless seem hardly to warrant affective results were obtain-the many fulminations about ed despite powerful resistance, British bombing of civilians. from shore batteries and escort ships,

Other Coastal. Command

SUCCESSFUL ATTACKS LONDON, Sept. 11 (BWS) —

N.Z. SPITFIRE FUND

Successful attacks announced In LONDON, Sept. 11 (Reuter) the Admiralty communique by New Zealand has already raised aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm on £50,000 for the purchase of an enemy supply ship and tank- planes for Britain and Bims at er off the Norwegian coast and raising £190,000.

oli depot in Norway follows close-

ly on other offensive... operations

Of this sum, £33.600 has been contributed to a fund, just closed.

of the Fleet Air Arm over the started by the "New Zealand Norwegian coast.

Herald," of Auckland.

NAZIS WANT DESTRUCTION

OF LONDON New London

PREMIER CALLED Scheme For UNREASONABLE! Raid Warning

STOCKHOLM, Sept. 11 (Reutër) -"Paralysis "or destruction of London's most important func- tions must be the aim of any nation fighting Britain, declares the Berlin newspaper, Voëlkischer

R.A.F. TO TRAIN WATCHERS

LONDON, Sept. 11 (Reuter).............. Beofachter, quoted by the Stock-Air raid warnings by sirens hence holm newspaper: Afton Bladet.

forth will be regarded as "Alert"

|----It--in-an-exaggeration to call and not-as-alarm-signais

em.

the present operations the Battle This is agreed upon by represen= for Britain, says the German tatives of employers, and

According to the Germanployees in consultation with GioY- idea the correct description would ernment yesterday.

paper.

be the Battle for London

Vilw

Watchers. will be posted on Tours The paper adds: "Nobody ex and vantage points to give waru pected London would not being of danget, affected by the war since London It is hoped that the scheme is the political, economic and will start immediately and financial centre as well as the R.A.F. have agreed to provide nerve centre of the Empire." means for training watchers.

The Afton Bladet's Berlin cor An examination is being made respondent says that political cir of the possibility of conveying i cles in Berlin declare that they similar alarm to the generai take the British attacks on Berlin public.

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and other places as a distinct Mr. Winston Churchill, recen sign of the British desire to conmending the proposal, urges all to tinue the violent ale warfare co-operate to make it work, “zo ́as which has developed during re- to minimise the dangers of auf- cent days over the British Isles.prise In these destructive, attacks "Churchill will not respond to from our cruel and relentless

reason therefore we are obliged enemy" and to improve it “in the to continue the reprisal attacks" light of experience till vistory they :637.

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