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RAID FIRES IN BERLIN
LONDON, September 3.
About 450 fires are still burning in Berlin after Tuesday night's R.A.F. raid, says the Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm newspaper "Allehanda." Some of the fires are so large that no effort is being made to extinguish them, firemen merely checking the flames from spreading. Firefighting equipment was called in from Frankfurt, Stettin, Dresden, and Leipzig.
It is estimated that 5000 were killed in the raid. The attack was just as heavy as the previous raid, and completely paralysed Berlin's tramway and underground communications. The main force was felt in central Berlin and in the south-eastern and southwestern suburbs.
Streams of bombed-out people are moving along the roads. A quarter of a million persons have left the capital and more than 500,000 are sheltering near the city.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 57, 4 September 1943, Page 7
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