Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-03-05 | Page 1 | RAF Pounds German Targets in Ninth Night Raid in Row

RAF Pounds German Targets In Ninth Night Raid in Row LONDON March 5 GP Royal jp-Royal Royal air force bombers smashed at targets In western Germany Thursday night the night the ninth successive suc- suc night that Germany has been attacked it was announced officially Friday One plane piano vas was reported mi missing sing from the nights night's operations which Included the laying of mines in enemy waters There was no Indication of ot the exact targets in the brief air minIstry min mm- stry but assaults on western Germany usually are aimed at heavy industries in the Ruhr luhr valley C Both the Paris and German radio radio ra n. ra- ra dio went off the air Thursday night Thursday nights night's attack carried d dorward orward forward a furious allied the thi lock clock offensive a against the nazi nul- held continent Thursday evening Mosquito bombers attacked railway rail rail- way vay centers near Le Mans Mans' and near Valenciennes In France Afew I A few tew cw hours earlier U. U S. S hammered at the railroad yards at Hamm lamm Germany and docks al and d warehouses at Rotterdam Holland The regularity of the allied air raids aids upon nazi territory appeared to indicate that the time was near when as Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris promised last summer V awIll e a will be coming over every night and V ew day day flood r sn SIlI j We and the Americans The G German e a r m man a n broadcast by the Berlin radio asserted asserted asserted as as- that there were losses among the populations of the Netherlands Netherlands Netherlands Neth Neth- erlands and western Germany from United States air attacks Thurs Thurs- day It claimed that a great reat number of children were killed In the Netherlands Netherlands Neth Neth- erlands and said that German fighters shot down 10 four motored planes This was double the number number number num num- ber of losses announced in a United States issued d in Lon IAn don The Germans also announced isolated attacks during the night by British bombers on western Germany and along the Baltic coast It said one enemy aircraft was shot down L