Show R RAF A F RIPS NAZI NAVAL BASE LONDON April 29 UP-RAF UP R P-R RAF A F bombers attacked the German naval naval naval na na- val base of Wilhelmshaven last night and also carried out unprecedented unprecedented unprecedented dented mining operations in Baltic Baltic Baltic Bal Bal- tic waters it was announced Thursday Twenty-three Twenty bombers were reported re reported reported re- re ported missing from the missions which marked the resumption of scale large-scale raids on the continent lull after after- a one-night one Wilhelmshaven was last attacked attacked attacked at- at at at- tacked on March 22 when United States airmen carried out a aday daylight day day- light raid on the base A dispatch from Folkestone said that big formations of high flying bombers which may have been United States craft streamed across the channel this morning in the direction of Abbeville and Boulogne in northern France indicating in in- in indicating a resumption of round- round the clock pounding of the con con- The emphasis placed by the air ministry on the nights night's mining operations operations op op- was taken as an indication indication indica indica- tion of a campaign to disrupt German German German Ger Ger- man submarine training in the Baltic and interfere with nazi preparations for the next phase of war the on the eastern front German planes mea meanwhile n w h i 1 e were over Britain for the first time in four nights but the raids were on a small scale the ministries ministries minis minis- tries of air and home security said Bombs were dropped at several places in southern England but they caused little damage and no casualties a declared One enemy raider was reported shot down |