Show R A F HAMMERS PLANTS PORTS Area From Rhineland To Atlantic Raided LONDON July 5 One JP-One One o othe of the biggest forces of British Britis' bombers to raid the continent in inda da daylight light struck at the Fr French factory factory factory fac fac- tory city of Lille LilIe Saturday and scored direct hits juts on a an important important important tant ste steel l and engineering works authoritative sources said said The rhe Attack was made Saturday aIt afternoon rn on with with a strong f fighter fighte escort Another day daylight ight raid in the almost month-long month chain of BritIsh British Brit Brit- rit- rit ish day and night air blows blow against Germany was reported to have had a railway yard at Abbeville Abbeville Abbe Abbe- ville yule on the channel coast as its target I A British announcement said also that British bombers' bombers secret secreta scored a direct hit on a ton German Ger Ger- Getiman man vessel off the Belgian coast Day Shift Carries On O. The day shift shUt took up where the night bombers left off after battering battering battering bat bat- nazi targets from the in industrial industrial industrial in- in Rhin Rhineland land to fo the Atlantic refuge ports harboring some o of Germanys Germany's biggest warships anc and U-boat U fleets The drone of planes over the channel was heard continuously for a half hour and shore observers ers speculated that the R RAF A F was increasing continuously the numbers numbers num nurn- bers of its raiding bombers anc and guardian fighters One big formation of fighter- fighter escorted bombers returned from froma a a direction west of Boulogne after h heavy avy explosions apparently some distance inland had been heard twice within an hour from the French side Strike at Nazi Ships Bomb explosions straddling Germanys Germany's repeatedly attacked b battleships a t tie s hi p s Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the big nazi cruiser Prinz Eugen raiding companion of the sunken unken Bismarck were scored in a night raid on the harbor at Brest the British air ministry declared Saturday In the same sweep along the nazi-held nazi French coast the R RAF A F Continued on Pie Pace Two Column Five R A F HAMMERS PLANTS PORTS Continued from Page One was s said to have blasted the U-boat U base at Lorient pouring explosives among moored submarines submarines submarines rines and damaging docks and buildings The ministry said other flights attacked docks at Cherbourg railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road yards at Abbeville and Rhineland industrial targets The attacks were the by bythe bythe bythe the R A F in the last 26 nights The ton Prinz Eugen was said by the British to have taken refuge at Brest damaged and cut off from safer harbors when she eluded the cordon of British warships out to avenge the battle cruiser Hood The ton sister ships Gneisenau and have been bombed repeatedly by the theR theR R RAF A F since they to took k refuge at l Brest weeks ago v Returning fliers r reported e p o 0 r t e d bombs started fires among dockside dockside dockside dock- dock side buildings at Brest and also caused damage at Lorient The raiders reported shooting down two German fighters and said four of their own planes were missing At the same time coastal command command com corn mand bombers raided the coast of southern Norway the air ministry ministry ministry minis minis- try said setting fire to docks and shipping at Haugesund and to a factory and the waterfront at Kristiansand The Germans bombed the industrial industrial in industrial in- in Midlands in their sharpest sharp sharp- est raids of the summer Some West Midlands sections had their first bombings in nearly two months Casualties were reported report report- ed in at least two towns Sections of southwest and western western west west- em ern England and South Wales also were attacked The British said three of the German raiders were shot down One southwest coast town was under attack for several hours and a number of fires were started started started start start- ed in the suburban residential area First reports said only three pe persons sons were kill killed d there however |