The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-29
Raj HITS HEAVY
BLOW AT NAILS
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Southampton, where a single plane
caused "some damage"
But on the French side it was a
vastly different story.
Watchers on the coast reported
that British bombers were attack
ing in a mass assault from Calais
south to Boulogne. The roar of
heavy explosions rolled across the
fog-ridden sea and flashes lit the
skies.
German ~searchlight batteries
lifted their white beams in scores;
British parachute flares and the
flaming shells of German anti-air-
craft filled the air.
Big Fire Burning
A fire was blazing near the Ger
man big gun stations at Cap Girls
Nez; the glare could be seer plain
ly through the fog.
The British struck first soon aft
er dusk and continued without an
There was a short lull, broken only
by the roar of the motors of scores
of bombers, and then a second and
more violent phase began.
Soon, the sky above the French
coast was bright with fires.
The resumption tonight of at
tacks upon the German bases fol-
lowed plain warnings to the pub
lie here that a great and perhaps
decisive struggle was at hand.
The threat of a Nazi spring
across the channel, said one in
formed source, was no more Sc
rious than Britain's shipping stu
alton.
1--WE are running as much chance
of being choked by the (German)
blockade before United States aid
reaches it's peak a. we r of get
ting a knockout blow on the chin
by INVASION" he added.
"You can take it that we're not
going to be diverted from the job
of countering these two real dan
gers flat-out by any sideshow ;"
The Evening Standard, which is
owned by Lord B~eaverbrook, the
minister for aircraft production,
suggested a like view that inva-
sion was but one twin of the perils
facing Britain.
"It is plain" said that paper,
that Hitler's whole and urgent
purpose is to batter down the de-
lenses of Britain before next sum-
mer the people of Britain are
at this moment dependent for their
lives on keeping the sea roads clear
enough of bandits to let a percent
}age of traffic pass"
Aided By Navy
The new British bombing cam.
paign was carried out yesterday
and through last night from Nor
way to southern France, over a
thousand miles of German-occupied
coastline, by many of the Royal Air
force in coordination with navy
fliers. Then the RATS coastal com
mand returned twice today, the air
ministry announced, to make new
hits on the docks at Lorient
France. This U-boat base has beer
bombed four times in two days.
The announced results of the
earlier and broader foray included
these:
The harbor and shipping al
Haugesund, Norway, dive-bombed
and machine-gunned; a 5,000-tor
German supply ship thrice hit ano
left erupting in flames and explo
sions; hits scored OF harbor jetties
and warehouses.
The docks at Cherbourg and Lo'
rient and a major airdrome al
Bordeaux, all in France, attacked
Torrents stores, barracks, dry
docks and power station hit and
Cherbourg's docks straddled by fall
ing bombs; ship-building yards at
st. Nazaire, France, also bombed.
Subsequently, the air ministry
also disclosed that the Merignac
airdrome ear Bordeaux was at.
tackled with both incendiaries and
particularly" heavy explosives.
It is Merignac 'drome from which
the Nazis have been sending out
big bombers to British sea
routes, and it is from Lorient that
many of their submarines have
been operating.