London, Sept. 24. All British aircraft relumed from "Holland, Belgium and France on Sunday night and carly yesterday morning, states the Air Ministry" in a communique issued ast night, Important aluminium works at Lauta, north-enst of Dresden were bombed and fires started. Railways: in this neighbourhood were attacked several points and near Dresden hits scored on a supply train.
Strong bomber forces also attacked docks and shipping at Flushing, Antwerp, Dunkirk, Ostend, Zeebrugge, Calais, Lo Havre, Harflewz and Brest Raid Described The news service of the Air Ame They began streaming down the stand through rocky water= livered a heavy al lack on military tjectives in and around Bertin, stale Aie Ministry communique. This Mtaes was on g larger scale than any Jet carried out. Preliminary reports Sow that fotensive damage was done, Anon. the targets elected by our ireratt "and: heavily bombed "were The Hangadort railway station "and Several foods yards, including that Stine. Grunewald. seaton, the, lewer of the electric power station Witmersdort. a us works at the Danziger' Strasse, factories at _Char-Tettenburg and. Spandau, including the Brandenburg: motor works, and The "bomber force which raided Berlin last might wae the seongest So-far sent there, declares the news Ecrvice of the Ministry. Some of the fSauadrons engaged were making their fourth raid onthe German capital, Chere were paving their third visi The atineks" hat been" earerully planned, snd. how. well the. general Echeme worked maybe ged from arnments. of the commanding officer Sta inrgesaudront My airerat went out at reruinr intervals and ome back as remularty, Just Hike wellistry, in describing. the attack on aluminium works at Lauta, about 100 miles south-east of Berlin, states that thick clouds hid the target for much of the time the raiders were over ili, Isat awalding their opportunity most pilots were able to drop their bombs, although it was often dificult to determine the full result.
One pilot, attacking through a gap Ju the clouds, saw several fires soon after he had dropped two high-explosive bombs.
Another pilot reported that he: ig fire through the 15 minutes after he had tumed homeward.
"The West Power Station and the ower stations at Wilmersdert, SMeady: hammering, many One aircraft alone started five large for visible, many miles away. -Anther aircraft reported that one power Station war alight ut four diferent points, the same applied to. Klingen= Berg and: Wilmersdorf, bombs burst Tng'on the stations and flames leaping She pilot guided by a rear fre xlingenberg "dropped. his bombs "on top. "Another pilot saw his bombs 38 the operations were the Chai ere, the Channel drop amid buildings of a large Forts.
Tu an attempt to escape the full fore of constant TA. attacks and to lessen the damage, shells from coast guns followed some of the Gombers out to sea 9s far as two Srorks, white other pilots Tet a string small fires in the' same target aren, sive mist have bit the fas Works fair and square," one pilot sakd des ribing how fives were followed by a fizantic explosion. Numerous tire: broke out, ove burning steadily fol-Jowing am attack on the BAW. are. courses where they were subjected to Bren gunfire. British forward troops famous regiment—parlicipated in this operation, then withdrew and left the enemy" to encounter the next obstacle.
Before the Italian advance, enemy artillery fire from Bardia, aided by spotters at Capuzzo, was accurate foe cause they had been able to plo the range of all targets, 'A. comparatively small. proportion Jof the enemy Is actually engaged as fa front-line force, og many thousands fare necessary for the establishment Jand maintenones of what must surely bbe one of the most dificult and most exposed lines of communication with which any general has had to deal,
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