GREAT PLANTS BOMBED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 256, 26 September 1940, Page 7

GREAT PLANTS BOMBED

ANOTHER RAID ON BERLIN

IMMENSE FIRES RAGING

(United Press Association.—Copyright.—ltec. 10.40 a.m.)

/British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, Sept. 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 second night in succession, carried the war into the German capital in a raid lasting two and a-half hours.

■ The raid began shortly after 10.30, says an Air Ministry bulletin, when the first attacker, evading the intense barrage of the city’s ground defences, located 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.

BOMBS STRIKE HOME

Berlin’s electric power transformer and switching station at Uriedcriclisuelde, 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 the south-east suburbs was struck, causing large fires.

Two sticks were dropped across a canal bridge, two miles south-west of Berlin’s main airport, the Tempelhof. In Berlin it is officially stated that a number of British planes again attempted to attack Berlin last night. Strong anti-aircraft fire prevented the attackers from aiming their bombs, most of which fell in open country. Several dwellings were hit in various suburbs, causing casualties among the population. Incendiaries fell on a hospital, but energetic safety measures prevented damage. Further details of the extent of the damage cannot yet be given. BERLIN ADMISSIONS.

Another message from Berlin states that an air-raid alarm which lasted for 2 hours 50 minutes sent Berliners scurrying to the shelters. Highexplosive and incendiary bombs were dropped, resulting. in civilian victims. I'no raiders were apparently fewer than on the previous night. It is officially admitted in Berlin that on Monday night the Royal Air Force directly hit two factories in the capital. The flames in North Berlin were not controlled till late in the day. Bombs dropped beside gas-works, after which the pressure was very low in homes over a wide area. An interurban railway was damaged and the traffic interrupted, and one line was closed a*l the morning. Thq evening newspapers in Berlin feature the R.A.F.’s “wicked attack on Berlin civilians.” They reveal that a bomb crater 30ft wide was made at a gasworks and other bombs tore huge holes in a dozen apartment houses on the outskirts of the city. A British Air Ministry statement reports that invasion bases across the Channel were attacked again last night. Fires caused by the bombs were again seen by watchers on the English coast.