NIGHT RAIDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 221, 17 September 1940, Page 7

NIGHT RAIDS.

BERLIN DISTURBED. Visited Twice On Monday Around Midnight. British Official Wireless. (Reed. 2 p.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 16. Berlin was again visited early on Monday morning by a harassing force which bombed military objectives to the north-west of the city, the Tempelhoff airport and also attacked a power station, which was damaged in a previous raid. The raiders, whose visit gave Berliners their first two alarms in one night, met anti-aircraft fire, but none of the aircraft was hit in the course of the attacks. Berlin had an air raid alarm from 11.28 to 11.57 la<st night, said an earlier cable message. Tlie Germans claim that the raiders were driven back. A second alarm was sounded after midnight and lasted for half an hour. •The German news agency claims that '1 British aircraft were shot down on Sunday. The Germans lost 20 machines. Foreign correspondents in Berlin, states "The Times," have been informed that tours of inspection of bombed areas have ceased. Any correspondent attempting without authority to visit these areas, or sending out reports differing from official accounts, will be instantly expelled from Germany. No correspondent can send out accounts of air raid* before the official story has been dispatched. The public is also prohibited from visiting bombed areas. The German radio, reporting that margarine factories would soon be producing again, gave away the fact that they have been closed for the last two months. Other heavy bomber forces raided Osnabruck, says the British official wireless, where six heavy calibre bombs were seen to burst across the goods yard, and Soest, where a heavy explosion occurred in the railway yards some time after bombs were seen to strike the target. At Krefeld fires were started. A goods train standing at the yard \vas hit and six buildings collapsed when six bombs fell across them at Hanim, which has been described as & nerve centre of the German rail transport. A fire started in sidings could be seen 20 miles away.

During an attack on long-range gun emplacements at Cap Gris Nez, near Calais, searchlights and adjacent guns were bombed and extinguished. NAZI " REPRISALS." Usual Bombast From German High Command. " BERLIN RAID FAILS." (Reed. 11 a.m.) BERLIN. Sept. 16. A German Hign Command communique states: "Reprisals against London continued at the week-end. Bombers attacked docks and harbour facilities and hit the Bromley gasworks, set tire to oil dumps, directly hit stations and industrial plants at Woolwich and other parts of London. "Bombs were dropped on harbour installations at Dovelr and Portland, where an oil dump was set on fire and also aircraft factories at Southampton, and objectives in Liverpool and Birmingham, starting numerous fires. "The British unsuccessfully attempted to raid Berlin. Several houses were destroyed and a school set on fire in a west German town. Two civilians were killed and several injured. The enemy yesterday lost 79 'planes, and 43 of ours are missing. Our 'planes sank three merchantmen, totalling 26,000 tons."