Evening star., 1942-08-28
AZ Blasts Reich End to End Gyniu and Kosse Heavily Hit
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Rhineland regions which have been
hardest hit in recent months.

> war machine. Hitler blamed part
n of the Germans Russian winter
disaster on frozen locomotives
r., and promised that this winter
there would be no such failure.
I" (The vast job of keeping
r German armies supplied from
the Atlantic to the volga and
sT from the Arctic to the Mediter-
g ranean under the pounding of
e the British and Russians and
n the destruction by saboteurs has
g put telling strain on Nazi rail
i transport.
(The German high command
d acknowledged material dam
age in residential quarters" and
some civilian casualties in the
Kassel attack
Bright Moon Proves Costly.
The raid was the heaviest of nine
on Kassel since the start Of the war
4, and its costliness to the attackers
British sources said, could be at
- tributed partly to the bright light
s. of an almost full moon which helped
Nazi night fighters and ground de-
fenses.
~s Kassel is 80 miles northeast of
5 Frankfurt, one of the targets which
= the Raj hit Monday in its last night
raid On Germany, and its principal
sfactories include Henschel Loco
. motive Works, said to be the largest
is In Europe; the Henschel Aircraft
n Engine Works which make Daimler
srand Benz engines, and the Fieseler
& ksAircraft Works. which turn out
Messerschmitt fighters.
"a While the big bombers were strik-
Ing at this root of Nazi air power,
| fighters we're maintaining almost
, ceaseless offensive patrol over Nazi-
/ occupied France, and there we're in
dications of possible naval encoun-
| ters in the English Channel and
the Kattegat.
! Watchers on the British south
| east coast reported the heavy roll
Of gunflre from out in the mists of
| the strait, suggesting to some a sea
battle in the region of the entrance
TO the North Sea.
= Similar cannonading was heard at
FVarberg. on the west coast of Swe-
HNen. Swedish reports said it ap-
peared to come from warships en-
pettled somewhere in the narrow
Waters Of the Kattegat, through
(which German vessels would have
10 pass between the North Sea and
4heir home bases.
Daylight Raids by Germans.
German bombers, meanwhile, fol-
3pwed up light night attacks on
Northern England with series of
4aylight raids on widely scattered
8reas.
Two enemy planes bombed Bristol
jauring the forenoon, unloading
eombs which an official statement
lid caused some damage.
N Many persons were killed and
Ikounded and others were feared
Wrapped in the ruins ofs building
Aoday when Bristol was bombed by
- German raider who swooped over
q the city in sudden morning attack.
~ One bomb exploded near three
Spassenger buses. They burst into
sdames, while their occupants strug-
a4ied to escape. Women and chill
dren were among the killed.
- Other bombs destroyed several old
aouses.
Later a lone Nazi plane BOMBED
- town IN West England, wrecking
three buses loaded with passengers.
"a number of Women and children
died in the flaming wreckage.
One German fighter was reported
Gehot down of the southwest coast.
\ Deafening Blast from Trance.
= With daylight came the Raj
fighters again, keeping up a drum
beat Of explosions which watchers
On the English south coast said had
rolled back from the French shore
during the moonlit night. One
Aeafening explosion. they said, in
aicated an ammunition dump had
been hit.
4 During almost every hour OF day
and night now, the great bombers
4nd fighter fleets of the United
Estates, Britain and Russia are un-
Nloading over Nazi targets which
t&tretch from the Atlantic coast of
ICccupied France to the easternmost
1regions Of Germany itself, including
rBe;lin.
Ii The arcs of air assault cut over
Mermany by American-British force
s8rom the west and Russians from
he east overlap and the Germans
once relatively impregnable to bomb
ngs far within their borders be-
eAuse Of the remoteness of United
Nations bases now cannot tell
where or from what direction the
lightning air attack will strike.
Can indication that the Ger
mans already are feeling the
pinch of interrupted and dimin-
ished production was given by
ga Berlin broadcast announcing
a new AFRAID alarm signal start
Il ing today. Henceforth, traffic
4 will stop and workmen will leave
their jobs only when serious
raid is apparent. Otherwise, only
"a general alert will be sounded).
4 Americans Blast Rotterdam.
The mere record of the two sided
Air front against Germany In the
,24-hour period preceding the night
forays indicates the extent and
effectiveness of the Allies air wea-
pom, sharpened by the greater flying
range, speed, bomb-bearing capacity,
accuracy and toughness of the New
American and British hombers.
Here 1t Is:
BY the United States Army Air
Force-an afternoon attack bonn
bardment of shipyards at Rotter-
dam. in Occupied Holland, where
direct hits were scored in the center
of the target and On two docked
ships.
This was the seventh Flying For
tress foray against Hitler-held
Europe for the American Air Force
and the seventh from which all of
its four-engined bombers have re-
turned.
BY the Russian Air Force-Raids
fIo Na1; o,oI ct