The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-03

Emden, important port ana naval base 70 miles west of Bremen at the mouth of the Ems river, also was heavily attacked.
 Announcing the Bremen raid, the air ministry said:
 Although last nights raid on Bremen was not on the same scale as Wednesday nights attack, it was again very successful. Large new fires were started. Fires from the previous night were still burning and in- creasing. An early report speaks of pilots who were unable to observe bursts of bombs on account of flames"
 The air ministry said that in addi- tion to the Bremen raid, oil targets at Emden and Amsterdam and a railway junction near Bremen were attacked last night. One British plane was missing.
 In attacking Bremen the British planes combined & reconnaissance flight, to observe damage done the night before, with 8 followup rain of incendiary and explosive bombs.
 The Emden attack was its 29th of the war. It was believed that ship ping, docks, airdromes and oil stores were bombed. Bremen has been raid- ed more than 50 times. Italian Sub Sunk
 London, Jan. 3-(UP)-An Ital- ian submarine, accompanied by three armed trawlerS, has been sunk by the British submarine Thunder bolt, the admiralty said in com- munique today. The Italian subma- rine was sunk while proceeding to its base in enemy occupied territory, presumably France.
 After firing his torpedo the Thunderbolt's commanding officer saw a tall column fo water rise in the air from the Italian submarine" the admiralty said.
 Loud explosions were heard and when the smoke and spray had cleared only one ned of the enemy vessel was seen sticking from the water at steep angle. This quickly disappeared.
 ''The escort, consisting of three armed trawlers, dropped depth charges as soon as they realized an attack was taking place.
 Since the explosion of the tor pedo was both seen and heard and since the enemy U-boat would not have dived while the trawlers were dropping depth charges in close proximity it is considered certain that the Italian submarine was sunk.
 Tt is possible on this occasion to depart from the normal procedure of refrainihg from announcing loss es inflicted n enemy U-boats since the incidnet was witnessed by en- emy escorting vessels"
 Germany RetaliateS
 Berlin, Jan. 3 = (UP)-German bomber units blasted Cardiff, Great Welsh coal port, with bombs of all calibers last night, in retaliation for British air raids on Bremen, the German high command said in communique today.
 It was the first official admiS- sion that the Bremen had been raided recently.
 (The British claimed that in two raids on Bremen great conflagra- tions and explosions damaged ship yards, docks, warehouses, factories and an aircraft factory.)
 The official news agency said huge fires set at Cardiff were wis., ible 70 miles away.
 It claimed that 8 German dive bomber sank 8 British patrol boat near the Thames estuary yesterday.
 Informed quarters, expanding review of 194O of the high command, said that during September alone German planes dropped nearly 2,O0O tons of bombs on the British isles. Nearly 70 per cent were dropped on London.
 Still In Business
 Cardiff, Wales, Jan. 3-(UP)- Butchers sold meat through the blasted windows of their wrecked shops today rather than admit thSt German b:itzkrieg fire raid had put tbem out of business.
 All big fires started by the Ger mans had been put out and rublic services proceeded today fairly smoothly.
 Time bombs fell in some areas during the long raid and household CTS were evacuated from their homes.
 The German fire bombs, mixed with explosive bombs, caused tragic ruin in several streets and the de- br's looked ike tn atin Ypres and some other 5Orhs on the western frcnt in the Last war. A large school and church were destroyed and fra bombs struck many otEer churches. NutscS st one hospital su- pervised the rtmoval of hundreds of patients vitheut casualties. De- splss the damage 1t was still pos- --EA.t- ln s.asa m .ie s.e tl.n oibeS t0 v e tf*t73kf fAtsH e5S kfsFetS >e SSs~ town without seting niuc'l sign of Aha ranf<1 s'