Evening star., 1941-05-28
Nazi Planes Bomb
Southern England;
R. AT. Hits Cologne
Germun Invasion Bases
At BouIogne and CoIois
Also British Targets
NJ the Associated Press.


LONDON, May 28.-While light
German air forces scattered bombs
over Southern England, British
warplanes swept across the Channel
again last night in raids aimed at
the Rhineland industrial city of
Cologne and the Nazi-occupied
French coast.
Observers on the Kent coast said
Boulogne and Calais apparently
were main targets of the r. A. F.
attack in German invasion bases,
which began soon after midnight
and continued until almost dawn.
CThe Germans said small forces
OF British raiders had attacked
points in Western Germany,
damaging a hospital, a church
and residential sections and
causing some casualties)
The government said German
night activity over England was on
a small scale and that little damage
and few casualties resulted. No
bombs were dropped, a communique
said, In East Anglia and at various
points on the south coast from
Kent to Cornwall.
This morning a formation of
German planes, diving out of the
sun, attacked the Dover balloon
barrage and destroyed one plane
before being engaged by British
fighters. The NaZi planes veered
off across the Channel.
Cologne Objectives Hit.
An authoritative source said the
British raiders attacking Cologne
during the night scored bomb hits
on important objectives" and
started several large fires.
The Air Ministry said seven Ger
man fighters were destroyed on the
ground when units of the bomber
command attacked German air.
drome at Lannion, in Brittany. A
number of other planes were said to
have been damaged and one hangar
demolished.
During daylight attacks on Ger
man shipping yesterday, the minis
try said, two coastal vessels were hit
and probably sunk one off the Dutch
coast and the other in the Bay of
Biscay.
One plane of the bomber COM
mand was missing, the ministry
said.
Noted Landmarks Damaged.
British authorities permitted the
announcement that several noted
London landmarks, including the
Temple, Gray's Inn, Serjeant's Inn
and st. Nicholas Cole Abbey, had
been damaged in recent German air
raids.
The Temple, heart of legal Lon
don, and Temple Church, largest of
the remaining round churches IN
England, suffered heavy damage.
The tomb of Oliver Goldsmith, in
the churchyard, was battered by
falling masonry, but his statue had
only a chip knocked from the tip of
the nose.
Flames spreading through the
church, whose round section was
consecrated in 1185, burned for six
or seven hours, melting the leaden
roof and destroying stained glass
windows.
The ancient Masters House of the
Temple, damaged in previous raid,
was hit again, demolishing read
ing room of the library and Inner
Temple Hall.
Flames spread from Inner Temple
Hall to the Cloisters, Fig Tree Court
and Crown Office Row, which con-
tanned the Charles Lamb Memorial.
Six Statues Damaged.
Six of eight statues of crusaders
the temple originally was the seat
in England of the crusading order
Of Knights Templar-were made
unrecognizable by tons of falling
masonry.
1t was said authoritatively that
half the entire temple was de-
stroyed.
Gray's Inn. fourth and last of the
great Inns of Court. to which many
famed Elizabethans belonged, also
was heavily damaged. The 10th
century hall was destroyed and the
library, with most of its 10000
volumes, was burned out.
A World War relic-the remains
Of a German incendiary bomb which
fell in the Observation-Disclosures lost.
but a catalpa tree planted by Sir
Walter Raleigh was unchanged.