Evening star., 1943-06-21

Germans Report Heovy
Attack on City Near
Lake Constance
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 21.-Great waves
Of Raj bombers swept out in day.
light today to resume their batter
ing OF Axis-held Europe.
Berlin reported British attacks on
Southwest and Northern Germany
last night and Swiss dispatches said
a Reich city near Lake Constance
had been bombed so heavily houses
in Switzerland were shaken.
After the Raj bombers' left for
the daylight raids today a Commute
silence OF the Kalundborg radio in
Denmark suggested another attack
on Northern Germany. The drum
of motors was heard continuously
for more than half hour.
The reports Of night attacks were
not Immediately confirmed by Brit
ish ofilcials. but the attacks were
foreshadowed by widespread air
alarms last night in Northern Swiss
cities.
One Of the largest German CEN
ters around Lake Constance is
Friedrichshafen, center of great
Zeppelin works, airplape engines
and submarine parts factories. Der
Bund of Bern reported that pow
erful detonations from bombs early
today resounded across the lake and
that flames soon shot up and spread
rapidly.
The German broadcasts, recorded
by the Associated Press. described
the raids in the north as dis
turbance attacks"
The British struck a devastating
blow at the great French munitions
works at LIE Creusot Saturday night
which was said by the Paris radio
to have left the sprawling Schneider
armaments works nothing but
mountain Of debris" with at least
$50 dead and half the $4,000 popu-
lation Of the town homeless.
No Sector of Town Spared.
The Swiss telegraph agency re-
ported LIE Creusot was almost en-
tirely destroyed. Successive waves
Of Allied bombers dropped incen-
diaries and explosives for 40 minutes,
producing horrible spectacles," the
agency said. No sector of the town
was spared, not a house was left
standing and all areas of the city
still are smoking, the Swiss report
said.
The Bern radio said some bombs
fell in the Swiss canton of Thurgau
during the night and that three per-
sons were killed and one was injured
in Kuemmershausen
The Allied warning which preced-
ed the disastrous bombing of the LIE
Creusot works, ITO miles southeast
OF Paris, was extended to Belgium.
Apparently foreshadowing intensi-
fed air attacks on factories in occu-
pied territories. Radio Belgique in
London declared today:
The Allied air forces are about
to start a systematic bombardment
of industries in Belgium"
Potential targets we're listed as air.
craft, submarine and railway equip
ment plants, and the people were
warned to leave the areas.
700-Mile Round Trip.
The LIE Creusot raid marked a TOO
mile round trip for the RAF, which
rained and ton blockbuster
bombs on the 750-acre iron and steel
works which have been called the
"Krupp of France" and have fed
heavy guns, armor plate and loco
motives to the German war machine.
The British bombed it once be-
fore, October II. 1912, losing only
l ship of force of "a.
They lost three planes in Satur-
day nights assault, indicating
either that the force was smaller
than those recently employed or that
the Germans have not raised anti
aircraft barriers as effectively in
France as they have in the Ruhr
and the Rlineland.
Unidentified targets were bombed
in the Ruhr and the Rhineland
and mines were laid in enemy
waters, an Air Ministry communique
also said.
Mosquito bombers patrolling the
Bay Of Biscay area last night shot
down one German Blohn-Voss 1873
flying boat, set three others aflre
and scored hits on an enemy mine
sweeper without any loss to them
selves. the Air Ministry news serv-
ice said.
Crashes Into Sea.
The flying boat crashed into the
sea a mass Of flames, it was said.
The other three were attacked on
lake 80 miles south of the Gironde
River estuary and were left blaz-
ing on the water.
Hits also were scored on a giant
Blohn-Voss 222 six-engined air
craft moored alongside, igniting
one Of its engines, the flyers re-
ported.
British medium bombers scored
hits on buildings and dispersal
areas OF the Polk airfield, in North
ern France, by daylight yesterday,
and fighter planes attacked enemy
shipping along the north coast.
Britain enjoyed an "all clear"
night. Early yesterday several
enemy planes crossed the south
east coast and one penetrated to
the greater London area. but no
damage was reported there.
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