NAZIS DESPAIRING OF WAR ISSUES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 217, 12 September 1940, Page 7

NAZIS DESPAIRING OF WAR ISSUES

TRAVELLERS VIEW. Further Heavy Raid On Berlin By R.A.F. Bombers. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Reed. 11 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 11. Reuter's Bucharest correspondent interviewed a traveller, who stated that 500 persons had been killed by bombs in Germany. The traveller declared that German officiate had already begun to despair about the issue of the war. Their attitude had altered from extreme cocksurenesa and arrogance to anxiety and uncertainty. What is believed to be the most intense air raid Berlin has yet undergone took place early this morning, says the Berlin correspondent of the British United Press. One incendiary bomb struck the ReichsU g, which wae burned down in 1933 and since partly rebuilt. The alarm lasted from 11.55 last night to 1.47 a.m. The raiders circled over the centre of the city at a low altitude for at least 30 minutes. The heart of the city was bombed and numerous fires were started, state American correspondents in messages to their newspapers. So many parachute flares were dropped by the British airmen to light up their objectives, that a newspaper could be read in any street. Hitler's Street Torn Up. The East-West Axis, or the Avenue of Splendour,' which was designed by Hitler himself, was torn up by bombs. The Potsdam railway station in the heart of Berlin was heavily and repeatedly bombed by the Royal Air Force during the night, states an Air Ministry communique this morning. Many heavy high-explosive bombs and several hundred incendiary bombs were dropped. The Potsdam station is one of Berlin's main railway termini. The attack was carried out with great precision. Although there was a ground haze, the station Mas located by the British aircraft, and at 11.45 they began the attack. The pilots of all the machines engaged report direct bite on the station buildings and yards. Most of them glided down through the heavy barrage of anti-aircraft fire to make their attack. Showers of incendiary bombs started many fires. The machines left for home when they had released their bombs.

ON CIVILIANS. Germans Conceal Nature Of Targets. PROPAGANDA VERSION. (Reed. 2 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 11. "Installations of military importance in London remained the chief target of Germany's reprisal attacks," says a Berlin communique. "Numerous fires were added to those already existing. We also bombed other military objectives, especially harbour installations, aerodromes and industrial plants in the south-east of England. "A German bomber sank a convoyed 8000-ton British merchantman south of the Hebrides." The German news agency announced at 2 p.m. that a German pilot reported that tires were still raging in oil depots at Thameshaven, the greater part of which had been destroyed. Big fires were seen in the commercial West India docks and also at Kensington, near Hyde Park and also at Regent's Park.