The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-03
Krupp Works Was Again a Target-AbOut 400
 Planes Participated
GERMANS AGAIN BOMB
 TOWN OF CANTERBURY
New Fires Were Started By British as They Hit Ger
 many in Day Raids
BY EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent

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 London, June 3. = (UP) - The Royal Air Force again attacked Essen and other battered Ruhr indus trial targets with several hundred bombers during the night and renewed daylight raids on the Axis-held Euro pean coast today in a steady onslaught that started new fires in German war factory centerS..
 The night rait in which about 300 British plane were believed to have participated as compared to more than 1000 on Saturday and Monday nights, extended over g wide area from the French and Dutch coasts to Germany's big tI1- land war industries.
 GA German communique today said that about 200 persons were killed in the big RAF raid on Cologne, but the Nazis have avoided specific comment on results of the Essen attack)
 Pilots of the British attacking force, which included American-buiit planes, reported that they found smoke spread over many miles of the Ruhr and rising thousands of feet into the sky and that the re- suits of last nights attacks were sat- isfacory.
 The Krupp Arms Works, which were the main target on Monday night, were understood to have been attacked again in last nights raid.
 Canterbury Hit Again
 German planes caused an air alarm in London during the night and again attacked a town in southeastern England. (The Berlin radio said that the town was his- toric Canterbury winch was heavily blasted in a retaliation raid by the Nazis on Sunday night. The Ger mans said they dropped 10000 in cendiary bombs on Canterbury last night.)
 The British attacks on Germany last night were on a reduced scale compared to the Cologne and Essen raids.
 Fourteen planes failed to return, against 35 lost the night before. But the smoke and ground haze, so thick that observation was difficult, hindered German anti-aircraft fire and it was believed the loss ratio was probably lower than in any of the three raids so far in the new offensive which is aimed at smash industrial centers one by one.
 Watchers along the English coast heard the bombers returning before dawn, and 1t was more than an hour before all had passed over.
 While the main force of Britisht planes concentrated on the Ruhr, others bombed northern France. es- pecially the Cape Gris Neg Coastal area. A huge fire could be seen from the English coast.
 France Under Bombing
 Maintaining the round the clock pace of raids, strong forces of bomb. ing and fighter planes raced over the southeast coast shortly after noon G 8. III. EWT) to attack ob- jectives in northern occupied France,
 An air ministry communique said the Ruhr attackers left large fires burning at Essen and other indus trial points.
 It added that in their Monday night raid on the Ruhr the British planes shot down two German night fighters.
 The communique said bombers anc fighters, continuing the fighter com, mand's own offensive, attacked docks at Dieppe, France, during the night, laid mines in enemy watsEj
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