ANOTHER RAID ON BERLIN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24414, 27 September 1940, Page 7

ANOTHER RAID ON BERLIN

THIRD SUCCESSIVE NIGHT LONGEST ATTACK YET INDUSTRIAL TARGETS BOMBED (By Wireless) ■;,v; :;.\'.."' ; . : ; LONDON, Sept. 26. :; ~... (Keceived Sept. 26, at 11.30 p.m.) Berlin had its longest air raid of the war last nisht when the R.A.F. intensified its attacks on the capital. The all clear signal was riot given until 4 a.m. ■"•'■•' The raids started so early that many people were caught away ..from home, and had to spend the night in strange shelters. Over ,1300 persons were crowded into one underground railway station, the crowd including a party of Dutchmen who had just arrived to work in Germany. • . An Air Ministry communique states that strong forces of bombers attacked military objectives in the German capital, particularly in the industrial centres in the north of the city Two waves of planes passed over the centre of the city and anti-aircraft guns were twice in action, but the main attack was on the northern ' suburbs. : ,-■"■' : Reports from New York sources state that several houses in the northern part of Berlin were destroyed. A German communique reported that eight blocks of flats were destroyed in an indiscriminate attack on residential quarters, but other Nazi reports say that little damage was done The Germans, however, have suppressed all news of air raids on Berlin since last Tuesday, but there is evidence that the people are hot deceived by the constant reports of little damage The correspondent of a Swedish paper says that the people of North-west Germany are • very bitter against the Berlin officials. They see for themselves the /devastation caused by R.A.F. attacks and yet have to listen to the Berlin radio announcing that no damage has been done. Other forces of light and medium bombers last night hammered at the invasion bases on the French and Belgian coasts as well as raiding Kiel. From Dunkirk to Boulogne the Whole coast was lighted up by flashes of bursting bombs, and on the English side of the Channel the ground shook with the concussion of the bombardment. Later in the morning heavy bombs were dropped on Calais and Cherbourg, and Bresto had daylight raids as well. A sidelight is thrown on the damage being inflicted oh important ; manufacturing plants in Germany in R.A.F. raids by the story told by a Washington writer in the New York Daily Mirror, accordmg to which one American motor manufacturer whose plant in Ger- " many has been taken over by the Nazis, informed German Government officials that he was no longer interested in the question of the return of his plant It had been too heavily damaged by British . bombs for him to care what happened to it.