Evening star., 1942-07-29
Reds Stiffen Caucasus Defense
As Nozis Press On Below Don:
Raj Spreads Ruin in Homburo
Second Ruid in ;
Nights Reported on
600-PIune Scale
Bs ttt Associated Press.

bs TIE Associated Press
LONDON, July 29.-In a raid
officially described as very sue
cesSful-even more so than we
anticipated" IN o tore d
bombers of the RAF spread a
ruinous rain of explosives and in
cendiaries on Hamburg last night
for the second time in three
nights.
Loss Of 80 bombers was somewhat
higher than in previous raids" due
to the light of a nearly full moon
and strong concentration of fight
ers over Germany's greatest port
and best-defended city, an Raj
commentator declared.
Loss of % planes was announced
in the Sunday night raid, so that
last nights may also have been on
the 600-plane scale of that attack.
SO Dead in Hamburg.
The thunder of bombs in the al
ready hard-hit submarine building
center drove home Air Marshal Sir
Arthur T. Harris grim promise: I'VE
are going to scourge the Third
Reich from end to end"
Che attack came only a few
hours after the Berlin radio said
SO were known dead in Hamburg
after the Sunday night raid and
others still were missing in the
wreckage.
(The German high command
said 45 raiders were shot down
IN the Hamburg area, and report
ed additional casualties and DAM
age there.)
An RAF commentator said 1900
tons OF bombs were dropped on Duis-
burg and Hamburg on the nights of
July Is and 26 and that the con-
tinuing attacks were causing in
creasing concern to the Nazi gov
ernment
The weight of the attacks has
forced the Germans to exaggerate
the number of their planes raiding
Britain and to discount the British
strength, he said.
Heavy Cloud Over Hamburg.
Hurricane fighter bombers pa
trolling the German-held coast
were said to have damaged
300 to 400 ton steamer and a motor
torpedo boat and probably damaged
three other vessels.
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raid said:
There was much heavy cloud
over the city but large fires were
seen by a number of the crews who
went down below the cloud in face
Of fierce opposition from anti-air-
craft guns and searchlights to bomb
from low level"
The Air Ministry announced that
other pilots flying Hurricanes, Bos-
tons and Havocs damaged airdromes,
railways and German-c
communications in Northern France,
Belgium and Holland and attacked
channel shipping last night. Three
fighters were lost, presumably on
these forays.
Two enemy fighters were DESTROYED
yesterday by British coastal patrol
flyers, it was announced.
A MeSserSchmitt which attacked
two British trawlers in the English
Channel early today, was reported
by the Admiralty to have been shot
into the sea. The Admiralty said
there were three casualties on the
trawlers, but no serious damage.
Rail Locomotives Damaged.
The Air Ministry news service said
damage wrought by British attacks
on the LoWlands and Northern
France included railway locomotives
and the oil and water tanks of va
rious factories. -Four fires were re-
ported started in railway yard.
Hamburg's enormous shipbuilding
yards and submarine plants have
been the target for British bombers
81 times since the start of the war.
More submarines are built there
than in any other center in Ger
many.
The city has many other indus
tries and is important because of
its immense warehouses, many of
which have been leveled in previous
attacks.
The British reported a single Ger
man aircraft bombed a point on the
coast OF East Anglia by daylight this
morning, causing small number of
casualties and some damage.
This followed attacks during dark
ness last night by small number
OF raiders over Eastern England
Their bombs did some damage and
at one point small number of cas-
ualties was caused British COM
munique said.
Harris Warns Germans.
The new assault on Hamburg was
made only few hours after Mar
shal Harris, chief of the bomber
command, broadcast to Germany his
warning OF heavy blows to come
from the British and Americans.
"All that has happened SO far
will seem very little Marshal Har-
ris said Soon we shall be COM
ing every night and every day. rain,
tSee RAIDS, Page A-16.)