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CENTRAL AREA HEAVILY BOMBED FIRES IN DIPLOMATIC AREA. GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS HIT| (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) • (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, September 11. While London was receiving its nightly dose of German air brutality, Berlin, according to neutral correspondents, was given a strong taste of its own medicine when the R.A.F. penetrated the capital’s defences and bombed Central Berlin. A thermite bomb crashed through the roof of the Reichstag building and smouldered in the hall before it was extinguished. The Reichstag building is not used at present and is still undergoing reconstruction after the 1933 fire. Other bombs fell in this district, which contains the Government offices. Incendiary bombs peppered the area around the United States Embassy, near which a 500-poundcr full of high explosive dropped near the Ministry of the Interior, smashing ground floor windows in a building occupied by an American news service. A heavy bomb landed in the centre of the Avenue of Splendour, which is Hitler’s particular .pride.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1940, Page 6
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