Evening star., 1941-02-27
British WarpIanes
Hammer Industrial
Targets al Cologne
Big Fires Declared Set;
Bouloene and Flushing
Also Are Ruided
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 27.-British bomb
ers hammered industrial targets at
Cologne, in the Rhine Valley of
Germany, with very successful
attack last night, Official sources as
serted today. 1t was the 58th Brit
ish raid on the Rhineland city.
An official statement on the raid
said:
1T is learned in London that last
nights attack on Cologne was very
successful. Many heavy bombs were
dropped on targets on both sides of
the Rhine and large fires were
started"
Later the Air Ministry announced
that fires blazed in dock areas of
Boulogne, France, and Flushing, the
Netherlands, and acknowledged that
six British planes were missing from
operations of the last "a hours
four from the offensive and two
fighters from patrol.
Attacks were also made during
the night by aircraft of the bomber
and coastal commands on ports in
enemy occupied territory" it re-
counted. AT Boulogne and Flushing
fires were started in the docks area" !"
An informed source said the raid
on Cologne was heavy and concen-
trated."
Berlin sources acknowledged
an R. A. F. night attack against
western German industrial
region" declaring a number of
civilians were killed or injured.
Informed Germans claimed no
vital or military objectives were
hitD
Bombs Dropped on London.
Daylight raiders shielded by
clouds dropped load of bombs on
London today, attacked ships off
the east coast and were declared to
have machine -gunned the streets
of four English villages.
Small formations of German
planes made two tries at London and
got through for a brief attack at
noon. British sources said bombs
as well as machine guns were used
in hit-and-run raids on three towns
of East Anglia and one on the south
coast.
In last nights raids on London
a bomb wrecked the canteen of an
air raid precautions station, formerly
a hospital, killing and injuring a
number of persons. Wounded nurses
worked with rescue squads in the
light of flares to aid others more
seriously wounded.
80 Babies Taken From Orphanage.
A South Wales town, hit at night,
reported nine dead, and nurses
and firemen were said to have car
ried 80 babies from an orphanage
fired by an incendiary bomb
An official statement said British
night fighters damaged" two raid
ers over Britain. The Press Associa-
ton, a news agency, said one Of
the daylight attackers on the east
coast was believed to have been
shot down
Dwellers along the east coast could
see the explosions of bombs aimed
at ships. The ships or their, escort
put up a heavy anti-aircraft fire.
Planes also were reported over the
Midlands.
Southern England Hit.
German raiders struck hard at
the southern half of England dur
ing the night, concentrating mainly
on London and a South Wales town.
A communique said the Luft-
waffe's nocturnal assaults were on
"a considerable scale" but added
there were very few casualties"
The Nazi bombers roared in early
over the Thames Estuary. hitting
hard at town on the Estuary and
at London.
Then they singled out one section
of the South Wales town (name
withheld, but possibly Cardiff or
Swansea, the latter persistently
blasted by raiders last week. for a
long attack. Later they turned on
London for another assault.
Points in East, Southeast, South
and West England also were raided,
the government reported, but it
added that no heavy attack de-
veloped in any area"
The German news agency, DNB,
said an airdrome at Lympne, Eng
land. in the southwest, was set
afame by German bombs, along
with store of gasoline.
The agency said a long-range
Nazi bomber reported sinking a TO-
900 ton steamer bound for Britain
and damaging a 6,000-tonner. Earl
ier, 2,000-ton vessel was said to
have been sunk at the entrance to
the Bristol Channel, on Britains