EAGER COMPETITION
FOR PART IN BERLIN RAID “SEATS” AT A PREMIUM. CONDITIONS IN GERMAN SHELTERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright! LONDON, August 30. A London commentator said that competition among the British pilots to make the raid was so keen that one pilot remarked: “You could not have bought a seat in any of the planes for any amount of money.”
The planes set out for Berlin just after dusk and were away for about eleven hours. According to the German radio, the warning lasted from 24 minutes past midnight till 3.15 in the morning. The Germans, claiming that 10 people were killed and 28 injured, declare that the casualties were all among people who had failed to take cover in shelters. This is perhaps understandable after the description given by a neutral correspondent who was in one of the shelters. He said that there were no seats and the 100 people in the shelter had to stand all the time with their heads rubbing against the ceiling. There was little light or ventilation. Any person leaving a shelter during a raid was liable to a fine of 150 marks.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 August 1940, Page 7
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188EAGER COMPETITION Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 August 1940, Page 7
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