Further Heavy Attack By R.A.F.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 229, 26 September 1940, Page 7

Further Heavy Attack By R.A.F.

OBJECTIVES HIT Other Important Centres Given Systematic Attention

(British Official Wireless.—Rec. 12.30 a.m.) RUGBY, September 25. A number of military objectives in the heart of Berlin were singled out and attacked on Tuesday night, when R.A.F. heavy bombers for the stecond night in succession carried the war into the German capitaTSn a raid lasting two hours and a half. The raid began shortly after 10.30 p.m., says an Air Ministry bulletin, when the first attacker, evading the intense barrage of the city's ground defences, and bombed the great Siemens and Halse factories Which produce a large proportion of the electrical equipment used by the German armed forces. Great fires were seen to break out in the target area after the bombing. Berlin s electric power transformer and switching station at Uriederichsuelde, supplying most of the city's industrial current, was attacked at 1 a.m. to-day. Sticks of high explosive bombs were seen to burst across the plant. A blast furnace in a southeast suburb was struck, causing large fires. Two sticks were dropped across a canal bridge two miles south-west of Berlin's main airport of Templehof. In the extensive R.A.F. operations against the on Tuesday night, which included the long raid on Berlin, the details of which are already known, as well as a continuation of systematic attacks on recent nights on enemy invasion ports, only two of the aircraft employed were lost. Finkenheers electric power station, near Frankfurt-on-Oder, more than 300 miles from Germany's western frontier, was located half an hour before midnight and was twice attacked with sticks of high explosive bombs, which were seen to burst in and around the target. The main railway line near Magdeburg and the rail depot and distributing centre at Hamm were also attacked, and a number of explosions on main sidings and sheds at Hamm was followed by a line of fijres. Goods yards at Brussels were also attacked. Hanover aerodrome was bombed from a high level, and at The Hague, to the north of Emden, where night flying by'the enemy was in progress, a British raider came down to 2000 ft to drop his bombs on a hangar and runway. A flare revealed the wreckage of a hangar destroyed in a previous attack.