The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-15
German Strategy Is to Harass Points Where English Supplies Land ' BOMBERS ARRIVE IN
 SMALLER SQUADRONS
 Q Losses Make Germans Spread Out Attacks; Lon- don Has Long Raid
BY WALLACE CARROLL United Press Staff Correspondent

BY WALLACE CARROLL United Press Staff Correspondent)
 London, March 15. (UP) - German planes, steadily increasing the fury of their new starvation raids on Great Britain, bombed scores of coastal points around the island during the night. Fly ing singly or in tiny groups to minimize their mounting losses, the raiders struck heavily at the northeast coast, the Thames Estuary, the south and southwest coa s, the Merseyside and the Clydeside on the west coast of Scotland.
 The Geramn planes struck at points where they might do the most damage to the food supply and to arrival points for essential war materials, in a new and big of fensive which started immediately after the enactment of the United States Lease-Lend Bill which they had threatened to- void by isolatilag Britain and starving t into sub. mission. en
 No Blitzkrieg Intensity
 At no point did the German raids reach blitzkrieg intensity. It was evident that the Germans were puzzled by the new defense tech. nique which had cost them 32 bombing planes - with crews = in four days and they spread their at. tacks widely. E
 It was known that four German bomberS had been destroyed during the night, to bring the total to 36. But 13 planes had been shot down the night before, and the decrease was evidence of German caution.
 Haze Proves Aid A
 A haze, which dimmed the bright moonlight which has caused the present aerial fight to be called the Battle of the Full Moon, aided the Nazis, and hindered the Royal Air Force night fighter fleet which hunted them.
 London, heart of the British sup. ply system, had its longest raid alarm period in three months and it's livehest night since Sunday. Two fair sized fires burned fiercely for hours. Fire bombs struck a church and office buildings and only 6 few explosive bombs were dropped.
 Attack Spread Out
 The total number of raiders, well up in the hundreds, was about the same as on the two preceding nights, but as the attacking force was spread thinly to avoid casual. ties, the attack area was broadened
 Army and civilian fire fighters, in. cluding volunteers, bounced on huas dreds of incendiary bombs in the Glasgow-slydeside ship buildsng area as soon as they struck the ground and kept the damage to that key area well below that of the pre- viouS night. The fire bombs drop ped by the first raiders were inc tended to start fires which would provide targets for explosive bombs carrying planes but all the fires vera put out within 20 minutes.
 Apartment House Hit
 Severe damage was done, howeveG, by explosive bombs, and one strlicn an apartment building.
 A United Press correspondent e Plymouth, at the southwest corner of the island, said that area was attacked heavily in three separate raids.
 Scores of high explosive bombs, he reported, struck a residential dds trict which had previously been heavily bombed.
 Five members of one family were killed and six wounded when 0 bomb buried them in the ruins oe their home.
 The correspondent said that man0
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