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I — 5 Sunday, September 29th 1940.
Great Britain takes
the offensive in the air.
Great Britain has now definitely taken the offensive
in the air war. Attacks on the invasion bases in the Channel
ports and important military objectives in Germany in-
crease nightly. The British pilots carefully single out their
targets and each bomb dropped means a weakening of the
German war machine. In contrast to the German tactics of
dropping bombs blindly, intending to intimidate and cow
the civil population, the British pilots only bomb military
objectives, and they hit fair and square.
Friday’s night’s air raids on
Germany were, perhaps, the
most extensive in this war. The
Air Ministry has deseribed this
raid as ,,a large scala attach1'
and it certainly seems to have
been one. The Channel ports
received the usual hammering
and aerodromes, factories and
lines of communications in
Western Germany were bom-
bed. The naval base Lo?ient in
Bretagne was a virgin target
for the British pilots. The at-
tach on that harbour lasted for
3V£ hours. During the first
hour of the raid 3 bombs and
incendiaries were dropped ev-
ery minute. Fires were started
in the docks. The following
raiders were guided by these
fires and scored direct hits on
two ships in the harbour. The
whole place seemed to be one
huge blaze when the last raid-
ers left. All the British air-
craft returned safely from
these wide-spread operations.
News in brief.
The Moscow Radio states
that American pilots will soon
go to the Dutch East Indies to
train Dutch pilots there. The
Dutch government has lately
bought 350 planes from the
U.S.A.
Reports from Russia state
that Chieng Kai-Shek has tak-
en steps to meet the conse-
quences of the Vichy govern-
ment’s submission to Japanese
demands in Indo-China, and
that he is prepared for the
Japanese attack without hav-
ing had to weaken his defences
in other parts of China.
Politicians all over the
world are quite interested in a
statement made in the Italian
Radio to-day. In this statement
the new Axis-Japan pact was
spoken of as a warning to foes
and false friends alike.
British air raids
London, Sept. 28th.
An official communique issu-
ed in London yesterday states
that the British attacks on Ger-
man military bases have been
as follows:
From September 15th. to
Sept. 21st. 33 air raids were
made on railway stations in
German occupied France, Hol-
land and Belgium.
Heavy damages were done
and several fires started. Dur-
ing the same week 3 attacks
were made on supply bases, 1
on a munitions factory, 3 on el-
ectric power stations, 5 on aero
Dog-fights over
London.
The Germans have been
comparatively quiet to-day aft-
er yesterday’s crushing defeat
when they lost 133 planes. —
They have made two attempts
to reach London but the big
formations they sent were
first broken up by ground-de-
fences and afterwards engaged
by British fighterplanes
which chased them back over
the Channel. The first attempt
was a complete failure but in
the second one a few Nazi plan-
es succeeded in breaking
through the defences and for
half an hour dog-fights were-
going on over East London.
London has had 3 air alarms to-
day, all of them short.
Agency reports state that
enemy planes have also been
over the Midlands.
On Friday night the Ger-
mans concertrated their attacks
on London and Liverpool. In
London several bombs were
dropped in the outskirts, but
the enemy planes did not suc-
ceed in getting over Central
London because of the intense
anti-aircraft barrage.
Liverpool’s defences also-
proved formidable to the Nazis.
Only a few planes actually got
over the city, and although
some bombs were dropped on
a densely populated area only
one man was killed.
on German bases
dromes in Holland, 1 on the
aerodrome in Jersey, 46 on en-
emy naval bases, among them
9 on Hamburg and Dunkirk, 9
on Ostende, 8 on Vlissingen, 6
on Calais, 6 on Boulogne, 5 on
Antwerp, 4 on Zeebrugge, 4 on
Cherbourg, 2 on Le Havre, and
2 on Dieppe. — The attacks
were intense and often lasted
for hours. In many places fires
were started which kept on
burning for days. Warehouses
and oil depots were destroyed.
These figures only cover one
weeks operations, but the at-
tacks are increased weekly.