INDUSTRIAL AREAS BOMBED

Southland Times, Issue 24242, 27 September 1940, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL AREAS BOMBED

Power Station On Fire

TEMPELHOF AERODROME DAMAGED (United Press Association —Telegraph Copyright) (Received September 26, 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 26. German bombers were over London again .ust night, but simultaneously Berlin was going through its heaviest air raid of the war. British attacks on military objectives in the German capital grow heavier and longer each successive night and this morning the Royal Air Force bombers did not depart until 4 o’clock. Altogether Berliners spent four hours in their air raid shelters.

Strong forces of heavy bombers concentrated on the industrial suburbs. They delivered five attacks in an hour on an important power station, causing fires. A fire was started in railway yards and at a main junction near the city’s principal residential suburb. A line of bombs fell across the Tempelhof aerodrome. One raider spent 20 minutes cruising about through heavy fire looking for his target, a munitions factory. He found it and bombed it heavily.

One report says that the raiders arrived so early that many Berliners were caught away from home and had to spend the night in strange air raid shelters. More than 1500 persons were crammed into one underground shelter. American correspondents say that two waves of British bombers came right over the centre of the city and that other bombs did heavy damage in the industrial districts to the north-east.

A Swiss newspaper states that German officials have suppressed all news of the British raids since Tuesday. Reports in Nazi newspapers belittle the damage and threaten reprisals against Britain, but the people are not deceived. People in north-western Germany are particularly bitter. They see the damage themselves and then read the official reports from Berlin minimizing the

effect of the raids. The German naval base at Kiel and the invasion bases on the Channel also were attacked. The whole coastline was lit up and the English coast was shaken by explosions. The attack on Calais was particularly severe and it was continued this morning.