ALARM IN BERLIN
GERMAN RADIO STATIONS OFF THE AIR EARLY ON TUESDAY MORNING. ANOTHER HEAVY ATTACK ON BOULOGNE:(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, August 20. The Royal Air Force offensive is being carried out with ever-in-creasing intensity. For the first time since the outbreak of the war every German .radio station was off the air early this morning. An air-raid alarm was sounded in Berlin at 12.42 a.m. and some anti-air-craft fire was heard westward of the city. The all-clear signal was given at 2.22 a.m.. making the longest alarm Berlin has, yet had. People on the south-east coast of England saw flashes across the Channel near- Calais and Boulogne during last night. Boulogne harbour had been raided on the two previous successive nights, and it is believed last night’s attack’was again heavy. Vivid flashes of flame lit up the sky over the coast, followed by muffled explosions, and the watchers from England saw antiaircraft batteries flashing continually for nearly an hour.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 August 1940, Page 5
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