AIR RAID ON HELSINKI
GOOD RESULTS OBTAINED London, Sept. 1. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Stockholm correspondent says that the main food and clothing depot of the Finnish army, occupying a whole block in Helsinki, was burned down with masses of supplies during the Russian air-raid on Friday night. A big railway goods yard was also wiped out, and terrific damage done in the centre of the city. The Soviet air raid on Berlin on Saturday night was one of the biggest ever. Moscow says to-day that the great Siemens works, one of the largest electrical plants in the world, was hit. as well as munitions plants and gunpowder factories in Berlin’s industrial centre. —P.A. SEBASTOPOL’S LAST HEROES Ankara, Sept. 1. Neutral military observers returning from a visit to the Crimea state that isolated Russian units are stili holding out in several fortified underground positions round Sebastopol.— P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 2 September 1942, Page 5
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