Evening star., 1941-02-12
R. A.F. Planes Blast
Germany and Three
Occupied Countries
Holland, Denmark, Norway
Targets; Hanover Is
Bombed Second Night
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. l2.-British bomb
ers raided areas of Northwest
ern Germany and of Nazi-held Hol-
land, Denmark and Norway, as well
as shipping, after a day in which
fighter patrols made daylight often
sive sweeps over Northern France,
the Air Ministry announced today.
In Germany the R. A. F. attacked
the industrial town of Hanover for
the second successive night, and also
successfully" bombed Bremen and
other points in Northwest Germany
In this round of nocturnal assaults.
(Nazis in Berlin said British
bomberS killed and wounded
number of civilians in Northern
and Western Germany, but failed
to damage war vital objectlyeS.
Defense fire, they said, caused
the British to jettison their
bombs and flee.
Gn Rome the italian high
command said that British
planes bombed Catania, Sicily,
but failed to cause serious dam
age. The raid on Catanla, site
of an air base from which Ger
man planes have been reported
operating in the Mediterranean,
was the third of Italian home
territory in as many days.
Three Reported Missing.
Dr,t Al nf thorn
fighters, we're reported missing. A
returning bomber crashed at Cam
bridge, causing the death of three
civilians, but not even injuring the
crew
Another official announcement
said an invading bomber was de-
stroyed this morning in Eastern
Scotland.
The Bremen attacks, the COM
munique said, caused fires and ex-
plosions, while in the return engage
ment at Hanover fuel was added
to flames kindled on the previous
night"
At Rotterdam. in the Netherlands,
bombs were reported to have caused
"a heavy explosion in oil installa-
tons"
In Southern Norway. shipping was
attacked at Kristiansand and in
the Danish territory of Jutland
seaplane base at Thisted was the
target.
All operations were hampered by
vast deterioration in the
weather"
Few Enemy Planes Seen.
The R. A. F. noted that very
few enemy aircraft were seen" in
yesterdays sweep over Northern
France by "a large number of
British fighter patrols.
Owing to the weather, it was said,
considerably smaller scale than on
Monday night, when Hanover oil
and rail center, was attacked for
six hours.
The weather also was credited
with keeping German aerial activity
over Britain to minimum. The
government said few bombs were
dropped in East and Southeast Eng
land during the night. causing some
casualties, and London had a brief
aid-raid warning shortly before 2
m today-itS first early morn
ing alert in some time.
The British raiders were said to
have had some difficulty in locating
their targets because of poor visi-
bility.
London Alarm Brief
London had a brief air raid alarm
IN midafternoon today, the all clear
signal came in a few minutes, and
no guns or planes were heard. Ger
man planes were reported near two
towns in the West Midlands.
A single shell fired across the
Strait of Dover by German battery
at Cap Girls Nez, France, crashed
In the Dover area today and it was
learned that the German cross
channel guns were in action last
night also. No casualties or damage
from any Of the shells were reported.
Three more German shells were
fired across Dover Strait shortly
after noon.
Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair
told a questioner in the House Of
Commons today that there were
military objectives in Rome, but said
that the Italian capital had not yet
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