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By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.
BERLIN RAIDERS success of air force widespread damage
British Official Wtreless. Rugby, Sept., 26. "All of our aircraft returned safely from extensive bombing operations over Germany and the i Jhannel ports last night," states an Air Ministry communique, which lescribes a five-hour raid on Berlin, ;he all-clear being given at 5 a.m. At Berlin aircraft of the bomber ;ommand attacked power stations, , railway communications and the remplehof aerodrome. At Kiel the iocks were bombed. Goods yards at Dsnabruck, Ehrang, Hamm, Mannieim and Hanover were also damiged. Shipping, barges and quayside j stores at Antwerp, Flushing, Ostend, Dunkirk, Calais and Boulogne were again attacked. Heavy Raids on Frencli Coast. The Royal Air Force again bombarded the French Channel ports for some hours. Early to-night the entire coast between Dunkirk and Boulogne appeared to be nn fire, lighting up the country almost like daylight. Terrific explosions in the neighbourhood of Calais and Cape Gris Nez shook Kent. They were the heaviest of all the raids on the French coast. Describing the raid on Beilin an Air Ministry bulletin says: "From soon after 10 p.m. until the early hours of the morning neavy bombers of the R.A.F. kept up a series of attacks on important military objectives in and around Berlin. Four separate attacks within an hour were made on the Klingenberg power station in the heart of the industrial section to the east of the city. This station, known as Gross Draftwerk Klingenberg, has an output capacity of 300,000 kilowatts and is the power supply source of some of the city's largest industrial concerns. Sticks of heavy calibre bombs burst on and around the station followed by an outbreak of fire. The west power station, two miles south of Tegel See, which had already been heavily damaged in previous raids, was again attacked and large fires were started. Salvos of high explosives were dropped on the Schoneberg railway yards three miles south-west of the centre of the city on the main railway junction near the Charlotteburg district, one of the chief residential quarters of the city. In an attack on Berlin's main airport, Tempelhof, a line of bombs was laid across the north part of the aerodrome and nearby railway sidings were also bombed. Another raider which arrived over the east outskirts of the city six minutes before midnight cruised above the industrial district for 20 minutes searching for its target under heavy fire from the ground batteries. After five parachute flares had been released the target, a munition factory at Rudersdorf, 17 miles east of Berlin, was located and bombed and fire was seen to break out. Tall Chimney Collapses. In the attack on Osnabruck many direct hits were scored on the trackc and a goods siding, and by the light of fires started in the yard the crew of one of the bombers saw flying debris from a tall chimney which collapsed across the trac.k. At Ehrang, bomb bursts were seen in the centre of the railway yards, and one salvo was followed five minutes later by a violent explosion. Another great explosion with a vivid blue flash is believed to have marked a direct hit on an electrical powerhouse. Flames and heavy explosions in the goods yard signalled the usual nightly bombardment of Hamm, and several big fires were started in the yard at Mannheim. In Belgium heavy and mcdium bomber forces raided the docks at Antwerp and a large power station at Brussels. Bombs were seen in both cases to explode within the target area. Shipping concentrations and harbour installations at Flashing, Dunkirk, Ostend, Calais and Boulogne were again heavily bombed, the raids starting in the early hours *of Thursday morning and continuing until shortly before dawn. Polish crews operating with the R.A.F. took part in attacks on Ostend, vvhere hits were scored on the main wet docks and quayside basins in which a number of ships were lying. The attacks were pressed home from low levels in the face of intense anti-aircraft fire and the glare of many searchlights. In addition to the damage caused "by high explosive bombs they started heavy fires within the docks by incendiary bombs. Fires and heavy explosions were also reported at Calais by medium bomber crews who delivered a concentrated attack lasting half an hour on the lock and shipping basins. At Boulogne. which was raided at intervals for three and a-half hours, many violent explosion., were caused. One. dcscribed as terrific by an obscrver, momentarily lit up the whole town. Great fires were started around eight of the main basins. Several of these whose flamcs leapt 200 feet into the aii could bc sccn by the crews of aiicialt approaching the target from 50 miles out at sea. h "
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