BERLIN’S VERSION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 244, 12 September 1940, Page 7

BERLIN’S VERSION.

MARKSMANSHIP ADMITTED.

(Rec. 12 noon) BERLIN, Sept. 11. A communique issued last night says: Tho enemy bombed various localities in Northern France, Belgium and Northern Germany, but caused little damage. A few enemy planes succeeded in reaching Berlin, dropping bombs there. Numerous' fires broke out in the residental and business quarters. In the centre of the town two hospitals were bit. A few streets bad to he temporarily evacuated in- the Diplomatic quarter owing to the dangei or the collapse of buildings. One bomb fell on the Reichstag Building and another on the Academy of Art. Five civilians were killed and several injured. Security and auxiliary services by energetic action, together with members of the civil population prevented numerous incendiaries from doing great damage Installations of militarv importance in London remained the chief target of Germany’s reprisal attacks. Numerous fires were added to those already existing. We also bombed other military objectives, especially harbour installations, aerodromes, and industrial plants in South-East England. A German bomber sank a convoyed 8000-ton British merchantman southward of the Hebrides.