The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-03
BREMEN RADIO QUIET
England Pushes Efforts To
Snap Any Nazi Blitz-
kreig At Its Roots
BRITAIN IS bonn B E D
British Claim Hamburg In
Ruins AS Result OF Heavy
Aerial Attack

LONDON, Aug. 3.-(oaturday,
RThe Bremen radio suddenly shut
down late last night, indicating
stern continuation of the sledge-
hammer ritish air raids on Ger
many-raids which the Britishde-
clare have score dsmashing suc-
cesses against supply dumps, ports
airdromes and var industries IN
more than 100 German cities.
With such raids the British hope
to sap any Nazi blitzkrieg at It's
roots.
At the same time, German planes
sped back to Britain, being report
ed over the northwestern r ar
ly today.
Shipping Attackd
Shipping off the southeast coast
was attacked by bombers n d
purts of water e r seen around
ships several miles out. Two Ger
man bombers also glew low over
the southeast coast but turned back
to sea in the face of defensive
fire.
German planes dropped a salvo
of bombs in a district of southeast
Scotlad, the bomb blasts being fol-
lowed by a single explosion. The
objective was not disclosed.
The German port of Hamburg,
biggest in allEurope, was pic
tured in virtual ruins by authorl-
tative British sources-the result
of three monhs of inermiten roy
al air force blasting.
The great Krupp arms works at
Essen, supply depots, synthetic oil
plants and airdromes in Western
Germany and Holland were the
latest targets reported put under
he bombsights and bomb racks OF
the raj.
Krupp Works Hit
The Krupp works, said the air
ministry news service, were pound
ed with bombs for five minutes.
The raiders, it was added, scored
several hits on the works and start
ed fires which could be plainly
seen by observers until at LOCO
feet our aircraft entered the
Clouds
The air ministry said that Raj
raiders by day struck a hangar
nd strafed grounded G r a n
lanes at the airdromes OF Lieut.
warden and Haamstede, IN the
Netherlands yesterday.
BY night British squadrons swpt
in on Western Germany and loosed
bombs on synthetic oil plants at
Gelsenkirchen, Kamen, Homburg,
and Reisholz; the Krupt works at
Essen, supply depots at H a m ne
Krefeld and Mannheim and sever
al airdromes in northwestern Ger
many. :.
1.-The damage inflicted on the oil
targets is believed to be consider
able" the ministry communicate
said. =
Plane Missing
All the night raiders returned,
it was said, but n plane was
missing from the daylight attack
on the two Holland airdromes.
French airmen took part in the
| attacks last night on German OBJ
jectives, heir chief objective be-
ing the oil plant at Kamen, said
a communique from G al
Charles de Gaulle, whom Britain
has recognized as the leader OF
all free" Frenchmen. q
De Gaulle has been condemned
to death in absentia by a military
court in Clarmont-Ferrant.
The damage at Hamburg, a city
of more than 1000, 900 population
which handles an annual peace
time traffic of IT, 0 900 tons, is
only a sample of destruction
wrought by British bombs dumped
by day and night on hundreds OF
detectives, authoritative sources
said.
The lesser port of Bremen, home
of huge shipyards, miles OF docks
and it's big Focke-Wulf airplane
actory; the Kiel and Wilhelms-
haven naval bases, and Cologne,
continental traffic center, h
drawn a large share of attention
from British airmen carrying the
war t Germany.
5000 Raids
In all, the British reported more
than 1000 German objectivea
bombed in more than 5000 raids
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