Although bed weather conditions apparently restricted enemy offend sive raids on Britain during the weale ending at dawn on April 4, the Royal Air Force has achieved considerable success in its ever= Increasing attacks on military objec ives in Germany and German.
'Among the objectives attacked were Bremen, where shipbuilding, yards were severely damaged and Emden, the Industrial centre, where new' type of high-explosive bomb Was used with extremely powerful effect, Whole buildings appeared to be blown into the alr and the results were devastating, Brest suffered two raids, and the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau berthed there were strad~ died by Bombs and the docks severely damaged, Several huge fires were! also started at this port, Rotterdam was also raided twice and considerable "damage done to oil storage tanks while gun emplacements and troops were attacked at Ameland and Tersehelling, British flreraft descended to within 60 fect of the ground over one island and 6 only ten fect over another. Heavy casualties were indicted on the troops, Many attacks were made on shipping off the Dutch and French coasts, 'Two tankers were left burning, two direct hits, made on a destroyer and another merchant! vessel torpedoed, Direct bits were Also scored ona supply ship in Alderney harbour and. two armed merchant vessels wore' sunie, From all these operations ten British aircraft are missing, One German bomber was destroyed over its aerodrome by a British night fighter, and one German fghtor was shot down by an RAF, bomber, During the week ending at dawn on April 8, the Germans lost 12 planes over Britain, One. was brought down on March, 30, one on March 31, five on April 1, one on April 2, ohe on April 3 and three on April 4, In addition, two other German planes were brought down by units of the British Navy, Two British planes were lost over Britain during the same perlod,—Reuter,
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