Evening star., 1943-06-29
Hamburg Also Hit;
Is Bombers Lost in
Night Operations
BY The Associated Press.

night to Cologne, where 1000
bombers had blasted 600 acres
Of destruction on May 80, 1912,
and laid the pattern for the
city-by-city razing of German
war industry.
The assault. it was believed, may
have delivered almost as great a
bombload as in last years attack be-
cause the RATS latest planes carry
a. greater weight. Also many of the
squadrons in the 1912 raid were me-
dium bombers.
In double bladed attack, British
heavy bombers also struck overnight
at Hamburg, submarine building
center, and continued the mine
laying that official sources an
nounced yesterday had caused the
sinking of at least 400 Axis vessels
since the war started.
Twenty bombers were listed
as missing.
With this new blow. the Raj was
estimated to have set new monthly
record in June for the total bomb
load dropped on Germany. surpass-
ing the May pea kof 10000 tons.
Each heavy assault is estimated to
deliver 1,500 tons, and SO far this
month there have been nine such
raids on the Ruhr alone, or a total
OF 1880 tons of bombs.
Last nights attack marked the
eighth assault on the Nazi home
front in 10 days.
Fires Left at Cologne.
The Raj left fires leaping up to-
ward overhanging clouds at Cologne,
scene of the worlds first 1000
bomber raid. 1t was the 117th at
tack of the war on Cologne.
The German high command called
the Cologne attack another serious
terror raid against residential
quarters"
The high command, in its regu-
lar communique broadcast by the
Berlin radio and recorded by
the Associated Press, asserted that
the Cologne Cathedral suffered
heavy damage from explosive and
incendiary bombs" and that Co.
logne's population suffered losses"
TranSocean, German propaganda
agency, subsequently said in Ber-
lin report broadcast by the Berlin
radio that the Cathedral at Co.
logne was destroyed by a bomb hit
in the central nave which wrecked
the whole building, according to an
announcement just made by mill
tary quarters
This claim did not appear in the
German communique.
II was the second raid of the
month against the great Rhineland
industrial center which the Nazis
have been reported working avidly
to restore The 1912 raid was re-
ported to have driven out 100000 OF
the citys 100000 population and
wrecked $50 factories.
The German communioue re-
ported property damage in both
Cologne and Hamburg and said 26
of the attacking bombers were shot
down Thickly populated parts of
Cologne were said to have been de-
stroyed as result of great num-
her of explosive and incendiary
bombs.
The great air offensives launched
from England have cost 1897 Allied
bombers in the last six months. A
compilation showed that of these
239 were American and 1903 British.
Hamburg Results Not Given.
The official British bulletin gave
no results of the attack on Ham,
burg, last hit on March 3 and an
air target nearly 100 times since the
war began.
An enemy convey, of three mer-
chant vessels, heavily escorted by
E-boats, was attacked by the RAF
during the night while attempting
to pass through the Strait of Dover,
the Air Ministry reported.
One vessel and at least two of the
escort craft were said to have been
damaged. All planes returned.
Typhoons went in first when the
convoy was sighted hugging the
coast between Girls Nez and Bou-
logne, flying through intense fax
to press home the attack Alba
cores then charged in with bombs
and one pilot reported seeing ex-
plosions straddling ship and it's
escort.
The attempt to pass the convoy up
the Channel may have accounted
for a gun duel across the straits
which southeast residents said was
one of the fiercest of the war. Brit
ish guns fired nearly a dozen salvos
toward the French coast. The Ger
man guns on the other side replied
and firing continued until early to-
day.
Fortresses Raid France.
- The twin foray by the British
bombers followed up two-way at
tack yesterday by strong formations
of American Flying Fortresses on
two enemy targets in Occupied
France-the submarine yards at st.
'Nazaire and an enemy fighter air.
drome at Beaumont-Le-Roger, 80
miles southwest of Rouen.
Such Allied air blows on the
French homeland, the Nazi-con-
troled Vichy radio declared today in
n broadcast recorded by the Associ-
ated Press, have made more than
10000 persons homeless. The re-
port also said that deaths averaged
Is daily from June Is, 1910, to June
81, 1943.
Berlin asserted that IL of the
American four-engined planes were
shot down during yesterdays at
tack. The United States 9th Ali
Force reported six missing.
The Americans flew in clear
weather, described as designed fol-
high level precision bombing" and
the official announcement said re-
suit were good. The flyers reported
direct hits at st. Nazaire. Big fires
were left at Beaumont-Le-Roger.
Britain itself enjoyed raid-free
night.
The fighter defenses and anti.
aircraft concentrations which thu
Nazis were reported last week te
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