BIG ALARM IN BERLIN
HEAVIEST RAID YET
UNTER DEN LINDEN HIT BY BOMBS
BRANDENBURG GATE LIT UP
(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Rec. September 11, 8.10 p.m.) LONDON, September 11. The Berlin correspondent of the British United Press says that bombs were seen falling in the centre of Berlin during an air raid alarm which lasted from 11.55 p.m. till 1.47 a.m. It is believed that the raid was the most intense Berlin has
yet undergone. One bomb crashed through a house next the United States Embassy, only 100 yards from the Wilhelm Platz. An incendiary bomb fell near the United States Embassy and two others in the middle of the Unter den Linden, immediately in front of the Brandenburg Gate. The Embassy was not damaged. The first bomb lit up the famous gate like daylight. The windows of nearby offices rattled and blue smoke rolled up from the Unter den Linden.
A high explosive bomb fell 100 yards from the former French Embassy, sending plumes of smoke and sparks 75 yards. The raiders circled th? centre of the capital at a low altitude for at least 30 minutes and dropped six parachute flares. An official German communique states that the bombs struck the Art Academy, in the heart of the city, the premises of 'the German , Engineers’ Union, Hedwig’s Hospital and also residential and business property.
The Berlin correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says that the Reichstag building was struck by an incendiary bomb during the raid.
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Southland Times, Issue 24229, 12 September 1940, Page 7
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250BIG ALARM IN BERLIN Southland Times, Issue 24229, 12 September 1940, Page 7
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