Evening star., 1940-06-02
Germans Claim
Three Wurships,
8 transports
BULLETIN.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, June 2 (Sun-
day).-The British Royal Air
Force last night raided the
German occupied harbors of
Willemburg and Maassluis and
the island of Terschelling, all
In the Netherlands, according
to British Broadcasting
Corp. broadcast picked up here
early today by N. B. C. The
broadcast said many direct
hits" were registered. Targets
around Nieuport and Ostend,
Belgian seaports, also were re-
ported bombed during the
night and fires started.
By the Associated Press.
MARSEILLE, France, June l.
The fury of Germany's air might
fell heavily on Southern France
today in one of the biggest aerial
forays of the war, leaving a path
of death and destruction in a
half dozen towns and cities down
through the rich industrial Rhone
Valley.
At least 46 persons were killed,
80 of them here and in the har-
Dor of this second largest city
in France. The wounded num-
bered around 100.
Latest Paris reports said Sc Ger
man planes were destroyed or dam
aged by the French air force during
the day, with 16 French craft miss
ing. French authorities said only
that certain number" of the Nazi
raiders were brought down in the
Rhone Valley.
The attackers, in their first raid
on the south of France, dropped
two heavy bombs in this Mediter-
ranean port. A cotton-laden Eng
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Armada of 21 to 36 Planes.
The heaviest attack was centered
In the Lyon industrial region, 180
miles north of here, where Is per-
sons were killed and between 80
and 80 wounded in attacks on five
towns.
Reports reaching Bern, Switzer-
land, said that the air armada flew
in squadrons of 81 to So planes.
Foreign observers in Switzerland
speculated at once on whether the
raids might have been a Hitler
gesture to assure Italy, on the verge
of taking sides with Germany, that
Nazi air power was great enough to
give aid to the Italians despite Ger
man pre-occupation with the mill
tary campaign in Northern France.
Lyon itself was not attacked but
at an industrial town Is miles south
west Is persons were reported killed,
60 wounded.
The famous peacetlme health re-
sort of Aix-les- s-Bains near the Swiss
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that destroyed a hotel, killed one
person and wounded about 30.
In the Lyon area one Of two
French planes which went up to
fight the attackers was shot down.
Throughout the afternoon raid
warming sirens shrieked several
times in the Rhone region. as well
as in places opposite Geneva on the
French side of the Swiss frontier.
Factory Area Bombed.
Reports via Bern said heavy dam
age had resulted in the industrial
section near Lyon, with bombing
particularly heavy in suburbs where
factories were known to be turning
out plane parts and motors.
Basel residents saw bombing
souadrons leave their German bases
shortly after noon and return sew
eral hours later across the Rhine.
One of two planes which came over
Swiss territory was brought down by
a Swiss fighter after failing to heed
warning shots.
Marseille is built at the foot of a
hill, around which loftier heights
rise in a semi-circle II faces directly
on the sea. It's foreign commerce is
greater than that of every other port
in France.
Eorfv Allied Aircraft