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APPENDIX VII.

Air Attacks on Enemy Territory in Europe.

Extracts from Recent Raid Assessment Reports.

Results of Raids.

The following reports of damage have been received during the past week :--

Germany.

Bremen.-Photographs taken by P.R.U. show that considerable damage has been caused, and that the damage is almost wholly confined to the industrial parts of the city. Numerous warehouses, sheds and buildings have been gutted or destroyed. Damage is particularly noticeable in the neighbourhood of the Atlas Werke (where two bays have been gutted) and of the Framche Werke (where factory buildings and nearby railway buildings have been hit). The Focke Wulf Flugzeugwerke appear to be slightly damaged.

The wreckage of a neutral steamer of 782 tons sunk in the harbour is to be blown up as it causes an obstruction to navigation.

Mannheim-An informant states that in the month of December there were four direct hits on the goods station and nine on the main station. In fifteen different places direct hits destroyed considerable portions of the railway track, and it was estimated that complete repairs would take three weeks. Particular difficulty was caused by a direct hit at the western end of the railway bridge between Mannheim and Ludwigshaven, where the goods station was also partially destroyed by fire. The informant was told that 248 properties were destroyed and seven factories were compelled to stop work entirely. A shipping yard was burnt out and 160 persons were killed.

Berlin. In the month of November bombs which fell in the Dorotheen Strasse blew out the greater part of the windows of the Ministry of Interior. One bomb hit a watermain and thirty people in a cellar were drowned.

Dusseldorf-In addition to Rheinmetall (previously reported) Mannesmann Werke and a steel works in the Oberkassel area have been seriously damaged.

General.-New and more strict blackout regulations have been issued. All hospitals, streets, shipping and any part of a building that has a direct connection with the outside must be illuminated only with blue lamps which cannot be stronger than 25 watts. All torches must only have blue lights. Illuminated. signs have been cancelled entirely save in the case of hotels, which can have a small line giving the name, and cinemas, who can advertise the name of the film being shown up till a quarter of an hour before the last performance begins.

Occupied Belgium.

Photographs taken by P.R.U. show damage to the goods depot to the north of Stuiveuberg Station, and that there is now no roof on three bays of a large warehouse north of the America Docks. Since the 2nd January, five bays of a warehouse north-west of the dry docks at the end of the Bassin du Kattendijk have been demolished, and there is the skeleton of a three-bay building seen to the east of this basin.

Norway.

In early December the Norwegian steamer Tore Jarl of 1,500 tons arrived at Haugesund badly damaged as a result of aerial attack.

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