London, March 3.
A multitude of fires, with the sky full of acrid smoke, was the scene again left behind by R.A.F. bombers when on Saturday night they made the second attack within a week on the industrial city of Cologne, situated on the left bank of the Rhine.
On one side of the river and on the wharves on its banks huge industrial buildings were ablaze, and tall factories standing up dark against, the flames made a good mark at which to aim heavy high-explosive bombs.
Guided first by the Rhine and later by the blaze of countless fires. R.A.F. bombers came óver in quick success sion and made a concentrated attack of a few hours; from soon after 9 pin. until midnight.
Messerschmitt fighters were in the air, end there was occasional cxchange of fire between British aircraft and the Germans, but the most part the Messerschmitts disappeared at once into the night.
British bombers were again active curing daylight yesterday.
Over England yesterday a German bomber was shot down into the sea off the cest coast by R.A.F. fighters, says an Air Ministry communique, which reports that there was little enemy air activity over Britain dur-light.
s, it states, were dropped at places in north Scotland and East Anglia, but little damage was done and no casualties were reported.
In addition to raids on Germany, aircraft of the Coastal Command yesterday attacked a convoy of enemy süpply ships in the North Sea. In the Course of the attack a vessel of about 2,000 tons was torpedoed amidships. Aircraft of the Bomber Command tacked the enemy seaplane base at Brest and also bombed enemy ships off the Dutch coast.
Lest night a strong force of aircraft of the Bomber Command made a successful attack on docks at ' Brest. Sticks of bombs were observed straddling the docks, where a cruiser of the Hipper class was berthed. Several direct hits were observed on docks and buildings, and two large explosions were heard just after leaving the target.
Other aircraft of the Bomber Command attacked enemy aerodromes in occupied territory. From all these operations two aircraft are missing—Reuter. 7 have not yet broken their silence on Saturday's events but everything goes io show that M, Stalin has again preferred the role of discretion and is holding his hand for some more propitious occasion,"
The "News-Chronicle" observes that full preparations have been made by Britain and her Allies to meet the new situation, "From the viewpoint of war strategy there is no need to take a tragic view of Bulgaria's decisian, The Allied front is firm in the Balkans." The "Manchester Guardian" says that if not yet an aggressor Bulgaria is on the way to abetting the aggressors. "This is disagreeable news for us but for Bulgaria also there may be disagreement results."—Reuter.
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