One force of RAF. bombers at tacked a power station near Bethune, stated an Air Ministry communique, and direct hits were scored with heavy bombs on an. important syn~ thetic of plant at Leuna, just short of Leipzig, in central Germany. This {nvolved a -record summer night's flight of some 900 miles there and back for British bombers, which undoubtedly included Britain's newest and fastest.
"Two more great fires and vast destruction were caused in the night's hammering of Muenster, capital of Westphalia, during a "blitz" on the German industrial "system,—which took in a revisit to the great marshalling yards of Hamm, once a famous target during the Battle of France and after, and communica tions in Bielefeld.
The Luftwaite, having stopped its elitzing" of British cities since the raid on London on May 10, followed up Monday night's sharp attack on Southampton and other points in the south-east with attacks on Midlands Objectives and points in the north and south that. the German High Command identified as arms works at Birmingham, naval shipyards at Plymouth, and harbours at Yare mouth.
This return to serious bombing on the western front and stiffer resist~ tance to RAF. sweeps over northern France is emphasized by the German High Command with a communique chiefly devoted to the Anglo-German sir war, It dismisses the gigantic Russian barite in nine words—Reuter.
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