COLOGNE, the important industrial and communications centre on the left bank of the Rhine, was last night attacked by the Royal Air Force for the third time in the week.
The raid was described as heavy and successful.
The bombers concentrated on the industrial centre of the city, and many fires were started, Other aircraft attacked the docks and quays of Boulogne and Ostend. Bombs were seen to fall close to a lock gate at Ostend. The docks at Brest were again bombed, as were several acrodromes in northern France; where several enemy ait-raft were destroyed or damaged.
From all these operations, two British aircraft were missing.
One enemy fighter was shot down ty RAF, fighters off the Kent, coast Monday cflernoon during "slight enemy activity over this country during daylight," states an official communique.
"A bomb was dropped on a town in Kent. One person was killed and a small number of people injured. One British fighter is missing.
The centre of the German night raids on England yesterday, was Cardiff. At the height of the raid there
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