GERMAN REPORT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1940, Page 6

GERMAN REPORT

SOME ADMISSION OF DAMAGE IN BERLIN. (Received This Day, Noon). BERLIN, September 11. A communique .states: —"Last night the enemy bontbed various localities in north France, Belgium and northern Germany, but caused little damage. A few enemy planes succeeded in reaching Berlin and dropping bombs there. Numerous fires broke out in residential and business quarters. In the centre of the town two hospitals were hit. A few streets had to be temporarily evacuated in the diplomatic quarter owing to the danger of a collapse of buildings. One bomb fell, on the Reichstag, building and another on the Academy of Art. Five civilians were killed and several injured. The security and auxiliary services, by energetic action, together with members of the civil population, prevented numerous incendiary bombs from doing great, damage. ’ Installations of military importance in London remained the chief target of Germany’s reprisal attacks. Numerous fires were added to those already existing. We also bombed other military objectives, especially harbour installations, aerodromes and industrial plants in south-east England. "A German bomber sank a convoyed 8000 ton British merchantman southward of the Hebrides.”