The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-03
German army huts were attacked by some raiders.

by some raiders.
 Start of Second Front
 A special air ministry statement said Britains' daylight sweeps over the continent, which are taking g steady toll, marked the beginning oi the second front in the west, because domination of the air by the British fighters was an essential preliminary to an invasion.
 It said that during May more than 7,700 flights were made over France by daylight, which meant an average of 250 planes a day.
 Asserting that not only were the sweeps keeping Germany on the de- fensive, and keeping nearly half its fighter plane strength in the west but that the Germans were losing more planes than the Royal Ali Force in these operations.
 During the first five months ot 1922, it said, the equivalent of # German fighter squadrons had beer destroyed, in addition to enemy planes shot down by night or in pro. tecting coastal shipping.
 Authoritative sources said tha above the smoke which spread fol miles and rose for thousands of fee above the Ruhr the weather wa. good and that it was believed re. suits of the second great attack or that industrial area was satisfactory
 In terms of shortening the wal by damaging German war industry 1t was asserted, the two raids or the Ruhr overshadowed the great raid Saturday night on Cologne which started the new British round the clock offensive.
 Keep Fires Burning
 Last nights raid was designed to keep the fires burning at Essen, at the river port of Duisburg where the coke ovens of the German steel trust are centered; at Okberhausen, a suburb of Essen; Gelsenkirchen, seat of coal mines and synthetic gasoline works; at Wanne, railroad Junction and freight marshalling yard; at Bochum, coal mine and iron foundry center, and at Dor.- mund, home of the German Gen. tral Electricity Works.
 Hundreds of thousands of small new type incendiary bombs started the fires in Essen and other towns Monday night, and last nights pilots reported that they still were Illuminating one of the most highly industrialized areas in the world.
 Though hundreds of planes took part in last nights raid, the attack was called small stuff" compared to those of Monday and Saturday nights. The Germans, when they made their biggest raids on Eng land, with 800 planes night, never were able to follow through on the same scale the next night.
 A single German plane, which flew over greater London during the night while enemy planes made a retaliation raid on southeast Eng land, gave central London its first raid alarm since March 16.
 A few incendiary bombs, the first bombs to strike in London since last July 28, fell in a big park. They set grass fires which were put out quickly.
 There was a brief alert in the London suburbs Sunday night when the Germans bombed Canterbury.
 London's alarm last night lasted only half an hour.
 Guns along the Thames estuary drove 8 number or scattered raiders from that area, and United Press fire watchers saw one plane go down in flames. Two others crashed in southeast England and fourth plane was downed by a British plane near It's base in Holland.
 Few German Planes
 German planes flew in small numbers over several southeast England towns and dropped bombs that caused considerable damage to homes, shops, and one church in one town. Casualties were light.
 Dispatches from Berne, Switzer- land, said no copies of the leading Cologne newspaper Zeitung had been received in Switzerland since the British raid Saturday night and that yesterdays issue of field Marshal Hermann Goering's own newspaper, the National Zeitung ot Essen, was not received yesterday.
 The secret anti-NaI revolution station in it's broadcasts said that the anti-air defenses of both Co., logne and Essen failed.
 Failure was attributed partly tc lack of guns, planes and fire fight CTS and partly to enmity between the German army and the Nad po- lice. It said that when the army sounded an "all clear" to get Co., logne people out of shelters eHdan- gered by fires the police ordered them back. The result was, accord. ing to the station, that hundreds oi people were killed when burning