Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-14
5000 Reported Killed
AsR. AT. Sinks Two
German Transports
FLYERS Continue Attacks
On Nozi Bases and
Channel Ports


LONDON, Oct. 14.-Britis h
bombers, defying bad weather, last
night attacked Germany's Kiel and
Wilhelmshaven naval bases, oil
plants, the Krupp works at Essen
and German airdromes. and also
carried out the nightly offensive"
against Channel ports, the Air Min
istry announced today.
The new attacks followed Royal
Air Force operations in which the
British credited their flyers with
sinking two Nazi transports and
killing "over 1900" German troops.
A communique of the Air Min
istry said;
Last night severe weather con-
ditions again hampered our bomb
ing operations.
Attacks were made on the naval
bases of Kiel and Wilhelmshaven,
on the oil plants at Gelsenkirchen
and Duisberg, on the Krupp works
at Essen and several enemy air.
dromes, AA (anti-aircraft batteries
and searchlight positions,
The nightly offensive against
channel ports from Ostend to lie
Havre was continued. One of our
aircraft is missing"
Flushing Harbor Attacked.
A further bulletin from the Air
Ministry declared that "a series of
exceedingly heavy explosions re-
suited from an attack on Flushing
harbor last night by coastal COM
mand of Blenheim aircraft.
The mainline railway junction
at the mole was one of the chief
targets and, following a major ex-
plosion, series of fierce fires was
caused where the bombs fell.
Another great explosion occurred
q full minute after one aircraft had
unloaded the last of its bombs.
'"Other Blenheims carried out an
attack over Domburg harbor, north
west of Flushing and across the mole
at Zeebrugge.
Here also explosions were ex-
, tremely violent and destruction was
increased by score of incendiary
bombs"
r. A. r. Using Heavier Bombs.
Britons were told the r. A. F.
widening raids with heavier bombs
are hammering home to the Ger
man people that their air force and
air defense afford no immunity from
the same horrors of death and de-
struction that have been visited on
England.
Statements by the Admiralty and
Ministries of Air and Information
claimed that British forays started
Saturday night hit 40 or more OBJ
jectives from Norway south into
France and east beyond Berlin.
Bombs dropped into the heart of
Berlin for more than hour were said
by the Ministry of Information to
have badly shaken public morale
In the capital. And that raid, the
ministry added, was only small
part" of the week end campaign of
destruction.
The heaviest bombs yet used
against Germany were said to have
been dropped on the big Krupp arms
works in two-hour attack at
Essen. Repeated direct hits on 1.-THE
armament manufacturing buildings
were claimed.
The ministry did not disclose when
the troop-carrying ships were sunk
of Lorient one Of the ports Britons
have been told the Germans have
made ready as invasion bases.
A<x..I, ~. ON Mil E-1nt
Other ports along 200-mile
stretch of French and Belgian coast
from lie Havre past Dunkerque were
attacked Saturday and Sunday
nights, as they have been almost
nightly for weeks.
British pilots who dumped more
bombs on the German long-range
gun positions near the Cap Girls
Nez lighthouse Saturday night were
said to have dived so low they
strafed the positions with machine
gun fire.
Among the targets of k-end
attacks in Germany and the Nazi-
held Low Countries reported by the
government were:
An aluminium works at Herlngen,
electric power station at Valdez,
blast furnace at Torgau, metal works
at Bitterfield, the Fokker aircraft
plant at Amsterdam, oil plants at
Cologne and Hanover, freight yards
at Cologne and Hamm, an aqueduct,
airfields and important highway sys-
TENS.