London, May 9.
Germany shook to the weight of bombs dropped last night by the largest number of British planes ever to raid Germany since the beginning of the war.
The record bag for this year was especially important because the Luftgaffe has lost some 150 men in the last 36 hours and nearly 400 for May.
The heavy losses suffered by the Luftwaffe's' personnel was believed likely to weaken the moral of the Germen aviation corps.
Since the official announcement that 24 bombers were shot down on "Wednesday night and "Thursday morning, pilots of fighters have reported that many additional raiders probably were so badly damaged that they could not have reached their bases.
The joint communique of the Air and Home Security Ministries said Hamburg, Bremen, Emden and Berlin were objectives of RAF. bombers which raided north-western and northern Germany.
The official German news agency admitted heavy raids on Hamburg and Bremen and other places in northwest Germany, and added that the raid was the heaviest that Germany has yet experienced.
"Hamburg and Bremen bore the brunt of the heaviest attack yet made by our bombers," says an Air Ministry communique. "High-explosive bombs caused widespread destruction and many fires were seen raging in the shipyards and industrial quarters of both cities,
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