The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-04

airdromes was new development ir night <shting.
 Meanwhile, according to the aii ministry, British bombers raided thC Rhineland again last night.
 (In Berlin, the official news agen- cy said Q number of British planes flew into west Germany le5t night and dropped Q few explosive bombs but that damage was small and was confined to civilian property It said three persons were killed and that two British planes were shot down by anti-aircraft guns0
 Another raid on the French Chan mel ports provided a fireworks spec- tacle for residents of the vicinity of Dover last night. Flashes of antl- aircraft shells and exploding bombs were seen first in the Boulogne re- zion, then toward Calais.
 British bombers roared across the Straits from Dover in a pale moon. light soon after dark. A stiff wind muffled the sound of the explosions but searchlights could be seen al one time along 20 miles of tho French ocast and the Germans kept the sky sprayed with star shells ant flaming onions," while the raiders dropped many flares as well a. bombs.
 Attack on Cardiff
 London, March 4.--CUP)-Germar air raiders made a furious attack on Cardiff, Q port fin South Wales last night in the blitzkrieg manner first showering the vicinity with in. cendiary bombs and then dumping load after load of high explosives Into the raging fires.
 Damage and casualties were be. lieved to have been considerable Many homes were wrecked. A hos. pital, a charitable institution, sev. eral churches and stores in the cen. ter of the shopping district were bombed.
 Port facilities and ships in tn, harbor apparently were the objec. tiyes. It was believed that the Ger. mans were diverting their attention from industrial .centers of the in. terior to the ports, as part of tho campaign to cripple British ship. ping.
 Near Ethiopian Frontier
 Nairobi, Kenya Colony, March A. (U.P.) - Oflcial communiques re- ported today that 0 two-pronged British drive from Italian Somali- land is approaching the Ethiopian frontier and that nearly 10000 pris- oners have been captured in the fast moving Somaliland campaign.
 (Middle east headquarters at Cairo said that another thousand prisoners were captured March in British operations in Somaliland as the drive neared the southeast from tiers of Ethiopia)
 British forces moving north to- ward the southeastern corner of Ethiopia have reached a point only 60 miles from the Ethiopian frontier at Bulo Burti while another col- umn at 1scia Baidoa Is only about 100 miles from the frontier.
 Large stocks of arms, petrol foodStuffs and stores of all types continue to be discovered" the com- rnunique said. Tt will take consider. able time to assess the amount cap. tured. The total of prisoners cap. tured Is now approaching 10000.
 These captures and elestructioni of enemy formations on the River Juba give the lie to the statement by the Italians that Italian Somalt. land has been voluntarily evacu. ated."
 British forces, the communique said, have occupied two more So. moliland villages.
 They are Isica Baidoa and Bule Burti.
 Isica Baidoa is about 100 miles northeast of Bardera and about the same distance from the Ethiopian frontier.
 Bulo Burti is only 60 miles from the Ethiopian frontier on the Ueb Scebeli watrecourse which flows ouI of Ethiopia into Somaliland.
 The British apparently are nov. ing toward Ethiopia in two columns which have the southeastern corner of the country as their objective.
 British Shipping Losses
 London, March 1 (UP) - British shipping losses for the wal have passed 100000 tons, the Ad. miralty disclosed today in an- nouncing that during the week end- ed February g the British lost la ships totaling 53.834 tons. Tn addi- ton one allied vessel Of 7,034 tons was lost.
 Authoritative quarters pointed out that during the week reviewed by the Admiralty, Adolf Hitler claimed that Germany destroyed 2l5,0 5,000 tons Of shipping in two days.
 Loss of 24 ships represented a sizeable increase over the previous week when 12 ships totaling 37,636 tons were sunk.
 Losses, however, were below the weekly average of 5000 tons for the entire war.
 The week just reviewed by the Admiralty was regarded by the Brit ish as marking the start of an in- tensified German U-boat campaign in the Atlantic.
 British shipping losses for the war, according to the Admiralty now stand at 3,027, ,593 tons.
 The Admiralty noted that during the week ended February g the off, cial German and Italian communi- ques claimed to have sunk 75,528 tons of shipping, presumably in ad- dition to the 215,0 ,000 tons of shipping claimed by Hitler.
 If the head of state makes a claim like that publicly it shows what little reliance can be placed in the general claims broadcast by Goebbels," authoritative quarters said. The reference was to pr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, German press and propaganda minister.
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