Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
R. AT. Hits HAMBURG
To Cap Big Week End
Aerial Offensive
Water Front and Large
Oil Refineries Are
Bombing Toreets
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
LONDON, Nov. 25.-British bomb
ers capped a week end of smashing
blows at the axis by raiding Ham,
burg last night while the Germans
were concentrating a 1o0-plane at
tack on a town in western England,
official reports said today.
The r. A. F. carried its offensive
anew to the German port, biggest
In Europe, by dumping bombs on its
waterfront and vast oil reflneries,
the Air Ministry announced. Other
British raiders were said TO have
splashed bombs along the Nazi-held
French coast, including the Bou-
logne area, which was blasted for
more than an hour.
The attack on the town in west
ern England was said to have been
carried out by German bombers
coming in virtually continuous re-
lays. A home for the aged. two
churches, two theaters and several
shops were among the buildings re-
ported hit.
(The German high command
declared hundreds of its planes
subjected Bristol, major British
west coast port, to another
Coventry" raid last night. Hun
dreds of thousands of pounds of
explosives and flre-bombs were
said to have started As major
fires there)
Late this afternoon the Air Min
iStry reported that several enemy
bombers, operating singly or in small
formations" had crossed the English
coast during the day and that one
had been shot down.
West England Area Hit.
London had one of its quietest
week ends since the air siege began,
but q communique today said one
section in the west of England was
attached heavily with damage to
buildings and some residents killed
and injured from dusk to midnight
last night.
British flyers who carried the air
war into Germany and Italy Satur-
day night and yesterday morning
brought back accounts of flaming
destruction at Berlin, Essen, Leipzig
and Duisberg- Ruhrort in Germany,
at Boulogne, Brest and Lorient in
France, and at Turin, where the
Italian royal arsenal and the big
Fiat works were reported attacked.
The British said bombs were drop
ped on the Krupp works at Essen
and large fires were started In long,
heavy attacks on the Pulitzstrasse
and Lehrter freight yards, the Pots
damer station and rail yards be-
tween the Potsdamer and Anhalter
stations, all in Berlin.
Tiergarten Clearly Seen.
Pilots said they could see Berlin's
famous Inter den Linden and the
Tiergarten clearly.
(Tne German high command
acknowledged only that Gin
small place" British bombers hit
private houses, injuring several
civilians" while the Italian high
command said British bombers
attacked Turin and Liguria with
out causing victims or damageo
At Hamburg, the Air Ministry re-
ported, many fires and explosions"
resulted from the British raid.
Early yesterday morning, it said,
aircraft OF the coastal command
raided the German airdrome at
Christiansund, Norway, while other
planes attacked the harbor OF the
hook of Holland.
Bombers of the feet and coastal
command attacked the Boulosne
docks.
Other targets last night, the min
istry said, included the Altoona gas
works, Wilhelmshaven docks, .
chemical factory at Hamburg, the
Den Helder dockyards, anti-aircraft
and searchlight positions, airdromes
and seaplane bases.
One British plane was missing. the
ministry reported.
British anti-aircraft fire and
fighter plane patrols beat back many
Of the German and Italian war
planes which attacked England In
relays yesterday, British reports said,
but the raiders broke through into
Western England After dAyt,