Berlin Again Heavily Bombed

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 218, 13 September 1940, Page 7

Berlin Again Heavily Bombed

MANY DIRECT HITS Rome Reports 1753 German Casualties On Tuesday (United Press Association.—Copvriglit.— Kee. 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 12. officially stated that bombers again carried out a big on Berlin last night, straddling Potsdam station with heavy calibre bombs, followed by incendiary bombs. The bombers hit buildings and tracks at Anhalter. near Potsdam, in a series of runs over the target. Repeated salvoes struck the goods yard at both stations. Bombs fell on the Tiergarten and the Templehof aerodrome. One British 'plane was damaged, but all returned.

i i B "tish machines arrived over the capital soon after lI.JU last night and three minutes before midnight the first attack was launched. The Germans admit that British raiders were over the centre °f me capital, and state that business premises were set on fire. The Berlin radio announced that British bombers attacked world-famous monuments and symbols of modern Germany. Other cities, in addition to Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen, suffered damage. , The Rome radio stated that the R.A.F. raid on Berlin on luesday night resulted in 1753 casualties. Most Widespread Raids Of War. ... Per haps the most widespread attack of the war so far on military objectives in Germany and. German-occupied territory was carried out last night by the R.A.F., says a British official wireless message. An Air Ministry communique states that Coastal Command aircraft yesterday attacked an enemy convoy off Dunkirk sinking one enemy supply ship. Another force of Coastal Command aircraft, operating with the Fleet Air Arm. attacked a convoy off Cap Gns Nez, hitting one enemy supply ship, whifth was left burning, and seriously damaging another. In the course of this attack the British aircraft encountered a force of enemy fighters and bombers, three of which were destroyed and others damaged. Three British aircraft were lost. Last night strong forces of bomber aircraft carried out attacks on railway stations, goods yards and an aerodrome at Berlin, docks and shipyards at Hamburg. Bremen and Wilhelmshafen, an oil plant at Monheim, an explosives factory at Frankjcl K°°ds yards at Hamm, Cologne, Coblenz. Mannheim and thrang, the railway junction at Namur and enemy aerodromes in Germany and Holland. Other forces of bopibers attacked barge concentration*, docks and dipping at Ostend, Rushing, Calais and Boulogne. ■" ree British aircraft did not return from these operations.