Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-10-26
British Give Naples
One Of lis Heaviest
Poundings Of War
Targets From Norwegian
Coost to North African
Desert Are Blasted
Nv the Associated Press.

Nv the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 25.-R. A. F. raid
ers gave the Italian port OF Naples
one of its heaviest poundings OF the
war last night during British aerial
assaults on Axis targets from the
Norwegian coast to the North At
rican desert, informed London quar-
tiers reported.
These informants said Naples, the
former tourist haven, was 1taly's
most smashed up city after this
fourth straight night of hammering
with 2-ton bombs-larger than any
thing the Germans have yet loosed
on London.
Naples is an important port for
sending troops and supplies to Libya.
British sources said repeated at
tacks there supported reports that
troops were concentrated there now
for movement across the Mediter-
ranean.
can Italian high command
communiuue said nine civilians
were killed and more than score
injured Friday night in air raids
over Naples and Ragusa and
Licata, Sicily0
Raids Made From Malta.
The Naples raids were said here
to have been made from Malta.
CThe Italian press long has
claimed Malta's air fields have
been rendered useless for bomb
ing planes)
The r. A. F.'s night attacks on the
German war machine included raids
on the German Rhineland, docks at
Nazi-occupied Brest, and Axis ship
ping off the Norwegian coast and the
F'risian Islands.
Crossing paths with German air
force raiders, who bombed various
points in Wales and Southwest Eng
land. including LIVERPOOL the r. A.
F. was said by the Air Ministry to
have set one large supply ship on
fire and brought down Nazi fighter
plane over the Dutch coast this
afternoon.
German sources said British
high explosive and incendiary
bombs dropped over wide area
of western and southern Ger
many Friday night caused only
minor damage. They added the
German air force had sunk 49,
900 tons of British and allied
shipping during the night in OPP
erations around England and
bombed Great Yarmouth. The
Germans also said their bombers
aboard a freighter in the Medi-
terranean)
French Area Raided.
Several Squadrons of the r. A. F.
made a swift raid this afternoon on
the French side of the English
Channel and the Air Ministry re-
ported Spitfires which swept in Of
fensive daylight patrols over the
Cherbourg peninsula attacked a
freight train, factory and ammuni-
ton dump without encountering a
single German fighter.
An American Eagle Squadron polit
officer, Ross Orden Scarborough of
Pomona, Calf, was credited with
the r. A. F.'s Dutch coast kill. The
Air Ministry said he shot down a
Messerschmitt 109F in an early morn
ing air duel fought out only few
feet above the sands at Flushing,
The Netherlands. Pilot Officer Ar
thur Ford Roscoe of North Holly
wood joined Scarborough in the
duel with two Messerschmitts, one of
which flew off, the ministry said.
Besides hammering Naples, the
Middle East command said the
r. A., F. Thursday night attacked
Italy,s chief Libyan port, Tripoli,
the Cirenaican ports of Bengasi and
Bardia, railway and a factory at
Ragusa, Sicily, and another factory
at Licata, Sicily. Two freighters
were also bombed and machine
gunned in the central Mediterra-
mean, the communique said.
The British acknowledged the loss
Of one plane in all this raiding.