Evening star., 1940-10-06
British Turned Back
In Continental Raid,
Germans Declare
Bombing Of Southeastern
And Middle England
During Night Reported
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Oct. 6 Sunday Brit
ish bombers last night and early
today raided points in Holland, Bel
gium and Western Germany, but
authorized German sources said
they were turned back with losses.
There was no raid on Berlin,
which has been without alarm for
the past few nights.
The Germans at the same time
reported they bombed middle and
Southeast England during the night.
One strong German squadron shot
down II British fighters in a three
and q half hour battle over the Eng
lish Channel yesterday and a total
of 80 British planes was bagged in
q day Of heavy bombing, informed
German military quarters declared
last night.
Admit S Planes Lost.
The squadron which engaged in
the long battle lost only one plane,
it was said, and the days total loss
for the Germans was f1ve.
Railroad facilities at Hastings, on
the south coast; gas tanks at Grave
send, In the southeast; London's
docks and munitions works, and
trop concentrations in Southwest
England were bombed, the Germans
said. Large fires were reported.
Penrose Airport on st. Georges s
Channel was swept by bombs and
machine-gun fire Friday, the high
command said, direct hits were
made on College Park railroad yards
and numerous fires started along
the north bank of the Thames and
north edge of London.
Axis Ready to Strike Anew.
Meanwhile, Nazi informants in
dicated, amid talk that the Eastern
Mediterranean may now become a
decisive battle-ground, that Ger
many and Italy are making ready
to strike new blows at Britain In
some Vulnerable spot"
Emphasized was the notion that
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini
had reached momentous war de-
cisions in the Brenner Pass yes
terday and that soon they would
act.
1t was a meeting, said one author
lied person, whose subject was not
peace. but victory-a war and dip
lomatic council"
England" he observed, 'is vul-
nerable in many places. And it
certainly will be struck somewhere.
Naturally, we cannot tell you
where"
This suggestion was echoed in the
Hamburger Fremdenblatt, whose
Berlin correspondent is much at
home in the Foreign once.
Saying that winter would bring
no breathing spell to England. the
Fremdenblatt declared the new Ger
man-Italian-Japanese alliance had
created the political pre-conditions
for pursuing the war against Eng
land on all fronts"
British Declared Cropping.
Speed and surprise" the paper
pursued. "have been the most valu-
able weapons of our martial art
England is again exposed to the
painful necessity of cropping in the
dark and guessing what cannot be
guessed where new blows by
Germany and Italy will fall, what
methods will be employed in that
connection and what moment has
been chosen"
The National zeitung of Essen, a
publication close to Reichsmarshal
Hermann Wilhelm Goering, was
preoccupied with the point that the
British fighting front now stretched
from the Thames to the Suez: that
the British Empire was under world
wide pressure from the Rome -Ber-
Toxic pact.
Europe and Africa" the Zeitung
remarked, represents a whole. and
according to this conception, the
axis makes its political. as we'll as
its military, decisions for both con-
tinents in one inclusive program OF
action"