BERLIN BOMBED
RAID BY SOVIET PLANES
OTHER IMPORTANT TOWNS ATTACKED (Rec. 12.5 p.m.) Rugby, Aug. 30. Moscow radio announced that last night a group of Soviet planes raided Berlin, Konigsberg, Danzig, Stettin and other towns in central and eastern Germany. In Berlin 48 fires, including seventeen large ones and nine explosions were caused. At Konigsberg there were 29 fires and six explosions, at Danzig eight fires and four explosions and at Stettin six fires and two explosions. All" the Soviet planes retuyied safely. BERLIN ADMITS SLIGHT DAMAGE Beilin, admitting the Russian raids on Germany last night says explosives and incendiaries were dropped over a wide area causing slight damage. Some raiders reached Greater Berlin, but anti-aircraft defences forced them up to a great height. They dropped only single explosives and incendiaries at random on outer districts. Damage at Berlin was slight.—P.A. and 8.0. W.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 31 August 1942, Page 2
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144BERLIN BOMBED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 31 August 1942, Page 2
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