ATTITUDE CHANGED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24402, 13 September 1940, Page 5

ATTITUDE CHANGED

GERMAN OFFICIALS # LESS ARROGANT NOW BEGINNING TO DESPAIR LONDON, Sept. 11. Reuter’s Bucharest correspondent interviewed a traveller, who stated that 500 people had been killed by bombs in Germany. The traveller declared that German officials had already begun to despair about the issue of the war. Their attitude had altered from cocksureness and arrogance to anxiety and uncertainty. « While London was receiving its nightly dose of German air brutality, Berlin, according to neutral correspondents, was given a strong taste of its own medicine when the R.A.F. penetrated the capital’s defences and bombed Centra] Berlin. A thermite bomb crashed through the roof of the Reichstag and smouldered in the hall before it was extinguished. The Reichstag is not used at present and is still undergoing reconstruction after the 1933 fire. Other bombs fell in this district, which contains the Government offices. Incendiaries peppered the area around the United States Embassy, near which a 500-pounder fell. A high-explosive bomb dropped near the Ministry o f the Interior, smashing the ground floor windows in the building occupied by the American News Service. A heavy bomb landed in the centre of the Avenue of Splendour, which is Hitler’s particular pride. ■