Evening star., 1941-08-10

'dlcted tonight.
Informed quarters said the drop
ping of British bombs would be
doubled by longer nights permitting
two continental trips nightly for
each bombers, and that the Rus
slams would use mammoth new six
motored bombers carrying bomb
loads of 1000 pounds.
In the light of this prediction.
the r. A. F's present eight-week- -old
offensive would be little more than
a scratching of the surface.
The r. A. F. reported leaving
enormous fires last night in Kiel
and bomb ruins also in Hamburg
and elsewhere in northern Germany,
at a cost of four planes. BY day the
r. A. F. swept the English Channel
and northern France, reporting
destruction of 18 German fighters
against loss of 10.
ID. N. B., the German news
agency, said 13 British planes
and one German were lost in
channel fighting Saturday.
Supply Ships Bombed.
A coastal command plane bombed
German supply ships in a Nor
wegian ford, north of Bergen, last
night, according to the air ministry,
and hit at least one.
Russia already has launched long
range assaults. Berlin has been the
target for the last two nights. In
Moscow, an official spokesman, COM
menting on the first Berlin attack,
said more was in store.
I'VE can imagine the terrific i'm
preston the bombing of Berlin
made on the Germans" said S. 4.
Lozovsky, vice commissar of foreign
affairs. This will have a great ef-
feet in breaking German morale"
The Russian six-motored bombers,
capable of hours of sustained flight
over Germany besides the more than
1,200-mile round-trip of attack on
Berlin, are one of Russia's surprise
weapons. Technically they are
known as the L-76e's. Their six mo-
tors are two more than the five
types Of fortress aircraft, two of
them American-made, which the
British are using.
Smaller Bomb Load.
The L-760's bomb load of three
and one-half tons, however, is less
than that of the four-motored fort
ress types. 1t is mid-wing mono
plane, armed with eight machine
guns. The six 00-horsepower motors
are said to carry the plane 290 miles
an hour. 1t is also used as troop
carrier. The L-760's are built at the
Fill plant, near Moscow.
Russia is said to have six other
types of bombers. including a four
engine job which carries $500
pounds of bombs and is as fast as
310 miles an hour.
Lozovsky told those at his Mos
COW press conference that the Red
Air Force was ceaSelessly bombing
the German rear, especially airports
in eastern occupied territory, fore
ing the Germans to establish bases
farther behind the lines.
He said Russian fighting planes
had proved faster, that Russian
morale was superior as evidenced
by reports of Russian ramming of
German planes in dogfghts and that
1.-The more we down them on the
approaches to Moscow the less the
Germans wish to bomb the city"
Cites German Losses.
In conclusion, he said. "the Ger
man losses are too great for the
results achieved"
Although reluctant to express
optimism. most r. A. F. officers ex-
press belief that heavy German
raids on Britain are 'out" so long
as Adolf Hitler has to retain the
bulk of the Luftwaffe for operations
in support of the great land Often
sive into Russia.
They .envision Germany caught
between trip-hammer blows from
the east and west. When the nights
have heightened into 1872 hours
(See RAIDS, Page A-5.)