The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-29
BRITISH STRIKING
HARD AT GERMANY
Continued From Page One)

the air ministry news service IN a
s,1pplement to its conmun1que on
raids at Lorient, Ostend, Boulogne'
Calais and Dunkerque.
The service said a terrific ex-
| plosion which lasted for w min
utes shook the docks at LIE Havre'
and started a fire which ragged a
long time"
"A o of oil tanks near n OF
the main basins Cat LIE Havre) was
struck" it said, land the last from
q salyo of bombs which fell on the
Belrot basin lifted the roofs off
nearby warehouses. Fires and vivid
colored explosions marked direct hits
on many other parts Of the harbor."
Direct Hits Scored
Direct hits along the side of the
main wet dock and the easternmost
dock at Ostend were reported by sew
eral raiders, with fires and heavy
explosions following.
One blue %searchlight (which had
been particularly troublesome" at
Ostend went out in a blue flash
said the ministry.
Germany's ev r-return1ng war
planes, starting their fourth week
of the siege of London, forced this
capitals ~populace underground twice
yesterday but British reports lndl'
Gated that the invaders were an
swered blow for blow.
The first daylight alarm shrilled
in mid.morning after another night
of recurring raids which left new
ruins smouldering in London, the
chief target, and in other English,
Welsh and Scottish towns.
Again Saturday afternoon, when
thousands Of Londoners were start
ing for the countryside with visions
of rest and uninterrupted sleep, an
other alarm sent the city to shelter
below ground.
But the British reported heavy air
attacks on their own account ano
declared that the stepped-up pace
Of the Nazi air assault had been a.
the cost of 1873 planes lost Friday
alone. Thus, for the second success
sive month, British claims Of de-
stroyed German warplanes ross t.
more than 1000.
A report from Dover said the RAJ
was believed to have delivered tts
most violent attack so far on Ger
man invasion bases across the chan
mel. Houses on the English sid
were shaken by the explosions an6
observers could see the flash both
of bombs and of heavy German anti
aircraft fire.
Set On Fire
Buildings, warehouses and lumber
yards, the air ministry reported
were set aflame by British bomber!
| in a three-hour bombardment Of Lo
rient, Atlantic port in the Nazi-oc'
cupied zone Of France.
Also, it was said, a large mum
tons works in the German city o
Dusseldorf, as well as railroad yard
at Hamm and Mannheim, wer
bombed by British raiders.
Although the German dusk-to
dawn raids which started at sun
down Friday admittedly were wide
spread, casualties were described of
ficially as small in areas outside
London. Fires started in the capita,
by incendiary bombs, a communique
of the air and home security minis
tries said, "were all brought under
control, most of them being quickly
extinguished."
The German raiders broke through
to the center of London twice be
fore dawn. The cotnmunique &C
knowledged damage to homes anc
industrial buildings in many parts
Of London and its e%nvirons, as vel
as reports of "a number of casual
ties"
German bombs also fell on severa
midlands towns, several areas "be
tween London and the south coast,
a certain area" in the southwest
and in some other localities but, il
said "the great majority Of dombs
did no harm"