The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-15
ENGLISH BOMBERS
STAGE NEW RAID
ON TARANTO BASE
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Every British attacker was re-
ported to have returned to base
perhaps Malta or Cre.s. At the
same time, circumstances Of Mon
day nights raid made it appear
that the planes of three British
aircraft carriers-the Eagle, t h e
1llustrious, the Ark Royal-w e
now in position to strike again and
again at Italy.
In Germany: Berlin-which had
an eminent Soviet guest in the
Russian premier and foreign min
lister, Vyacheslaff Molotoit-at-
tackled, and fires started i'll the
night.
Among objectives bombed in the
capital, the air ministry saiL. were
the Schlesischer railway station
familiar target now-a4ld the
Grunewald freight yards.
Other Nazi Targets
Elsewhere in Reich territory the
ministry reported these targets hit
again: Cologne power station; fac
tories at Dortmund and Dussel-
dorf; the important Rhine p t
area of Duisburg-Ruhrort: c o k e
Ovens at Lintfort; oil plants at
Gelsenkirchen, Hanover, Leuna;>
airdromes in various areas and a
seaplane base at Norde rney: the
docks at Calais and Wilhelmshav-
en-.
In this German phase of the
campaign, the British acknow-
lodged the loss of two planes.
In Albania and along the desert
front: the vital Albanian port of
Durazzo pounded once more in a
long series of attacks and further
damage left amid the flames still
burning from previous raids.
Valona, another Albanian port to
the south, bombed heartily; an am
munition dump and motor trans
port concentrations hit.
Sidi Barrani and Derna in the
western desert raided, along with
Bardia and Bengasi in Italian Lib
va; more fires started; ships in
Bengasi harbor bombed.
Prestige Climbs
AS the world prestige Of the
British navy and air fleets CORES.
pondingly rose, it was understood
that five new $4,000 ton battleships
of 80 knots, of the King George
v class, now have gone into serv.
ice.
If they are in fact in service
Britain's total of capital h p
stands at 10 against an Axis capi
tai strength, as figured here, o.
nine.
To many here, the action at Ia
ranto was the greatest victory fol
Britain since the defeat oil t h {
massed squadrons of German
bombers which sought control O
British air in the late summer anc
early autumn.
They suggested that it woul
have tremendous diplomatic ane
propaganda Notwithstanding tn
Greeks and Turks, SOLDERING Spain
and perhaps Russia, and perhaps
even leading to such a decline il
Italian morale that quick victories
would be needed to head off
possible popular movement agains
Mussolini.
Warcraft in the harbor of Ia
ranto were clearly visible to tht
British bombers as they swung il
across the Gulf of Taranto ant
headed up inside the heel of th'
Italian boot, the air ministry new
service said.
They faced an intense barrag'
from the guns of ships and from
shore batteries, but the men dog
gedly pressed the attack h m e
throwing bombs on the eastern
part of the main docks in the in
ner harbor.
cat one time seven big fire'
were blazing together and ther'
was a succession of heavy explo
sions," the service said.
One of the raiders had gone OF
it's homeward course for Is min
utes and was perhaps IS mile
away when the crew saw the who'll
town of Taranto 'Ighted up b,
an immense flash from an excep
tiona ay big explosion