BOMBED AGAIN BY R.A.F.

Evening Star, Issue 23692, 27 September 1940, Page 7

BOMBED AGAIN BY R.A.F.

LONGEST RAID OF WAR MAIN ATTACK ON NORTHERN SUBURBS Pre»s Association—By Telegraph Copyright LONDON, September 26. Berlin had its longest air raid of the war last night, when the R.A.F. intensified its attacks on the capital. The all clear signal was not given until 4 a.m. The raids started so early that many people were caught away from home and had to spend the night in strange shelters. Over 1,500 persons were crowded into one underground railway station, the crowd including a party of Dutchmen who had just arrived to work in Germany. An Air Ministry communique states that strong forces of bombers attacked military objectives in the German capital, particularly in the industrial centres in the north of the city. Two ■waves of planes passed over the centre of the city, and anti-aircraft guns were twice in .action, but the main attack ■was on the northern'suburbs. Reports from New York state that several houses in the northern part of Berlin were destroyed. A German communique reported that eight blocks of flats were destroyed in an indiscriminate attack on residential quarters, but other Nazi reports say that little damage was done. The Germans, however, have suppressed all news of air raids on. Berlin since last Tuesday, hut there is evidence that the people are not deceived by the constant reports of little damage. The correspondent of a Swedish paper says that the people of North-west Germany are very bjtter against the Berlin officials. They see for themselves the devastation caused by R.A.F. attacks, and yet have to listen to the Berlin radio an-, nouncing that no damage has been done. A sidelight is thrown on the damage inflicted on important manufacturing plants in Germany in R.A.F. raids by the story told by a Washington writer in the' ‘ New York Daily Mirror,’ according to which one American motor manufacturer whose plant in Germany has been taken over by the Nazis, informed German Government officials that he was no longer interested in the question of the return of his plant. It had been too heavily damaged by British bombs for him to care what happened to it. i KEY GENTRYS IMPORTANT OBJECTIVES ATTACKED POWER STATIONS HEAVILY DAMAGED (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 2G. (Received September 27, at 10.5 a.m.) Last night’s long air raid on Berlin is described in a A Air Ministry bulletin, which says: “ From soon after 10 p.m. until the early hours of the morning heavy bombers of the R.A.F. kept up a series of attacks on important military objectives in and around Berlin. “ Four separate attacks within an hour were made on the- Klingenberg power station in the heart of the industrial section to the east of the city. This station, known as Gross Draftwerk Klingenberg, has an ; output capacity of 300,000 kilowatts, and is the power supply source of some of the city’s largest industrial concerns. Sticks of heavy calibre bombs burst on and around the station, followed by an outbreak of fire. “ The West power station, two miles south of Tegel See, which has already been heavily damaged in previous raids, was again attacked, and a large fire started. “ Salvos of high explosives were dropped on the Schoneberg railway yards, three miles south-west of the centre of the city, and on the main railway 'junction near the Charlottenhurg district, one of the chief residential quarters of the city. “ In the attack on Berlin’s main airport, Tempelhof,' a line of bombs was laid' across the north part of the aerodrome, and nearby railway sidings were also bombed. “ Another raider which arrived over the eastern outskirts of the city sis minutes before' midnight cruised above the industrial district for 20 minutes, searching for its target under heavy fire from the ground batteries. After five parachute flares had been released the target, the munition factory at Rudersdorf, 17 miles east of Berlin, was located and bombed and a fire was seen to break out.”

NAZI ACCOUNT BERLIN, September 26. (Received September 27, at 11.45 a.m.) Informed circles state that the R.A.F. raid last night destroyed eight blocks of flats and killed two and wounded five civilians. The R.A.F. is reported to have raided northern and western Germany, three persons being killed.