RAIDS ON BERLIN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 244, 12 September 1940, Page 8

RAIDS ON BERLIN.

POTSDAM STATION HIT. INCENDIARY BOMB MISSES GOEBBELS’S HOUSE, (Itcc. 12,25 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 12 The Air Ministry states that besides Potsdam station in Berlin the R.A.F. last night bombed Bremen and Wilhelmshaven. vast concentrations in docks and harbours on the French, Belgian, and Dutch coasts, also gun emplacements at Cape Gris Nez, railway targets at Duisberg and Brussels, and aerodromes in Germany and Germanoccupied territory. Four of our planes have not returned.

The Air Ministry News Service says the R.A.F. repeatedly hit Potsdam station with heavy bombs and several hundred incendiaries. The pilots of all machines claimed several direct hits on the station and yards. Several planes attacked by gliding through the anti-aircraft barrage. Fires broke out as showers of incendiaries fell. One fire was particularly large and there were several smaller ones. The raiders left for home after releasing all their bombs. The German News Agency admits that a 1511) incendiary bomb fell 10ft from Dr. Goebbels’s residence in Berlin. tearing a deep hole in the garden. Mr Churchill’s reference in his broadcast to the shelling by the Royal Navy of ship concentrations from the other side of the Channel was expanded in an Admiralty communique on Wednesday night, states the British Official Wireless. The communique is as follows: “Strong and repeated offensive actions are being taken by our light' forces against German shipping movements, ports and concentrations of shipping. These operations have inflicted losses upon the enemy as well as damage to the port facilities which would be vital to him in the event of an attempt to invade England. “Further details cannot he given without disclosing information which would be useful to the enemy.”