WARM TIME

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 October 1940, Page 7

WARM TIME

FOR BERLIN AND OTHER CENTRES TARGETS INCLUDE LARGE POWER STATIONS FACTORIES AND DOCKS GET THEIR SHARE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, October 24. The R.A.F. gave Berlin and other centres in Germany a particularly warm time last night. For the twenty-second time R.A.F. bombers were over the city for almost two hours. The targets included Berlin’s two principal power stations—the Berliner electricity works in the Charlottenburg area and the Klingenberg power station on the opposite side of the city. The bombers also attacked the great railway yards of Templehof, Pulitstrasse and Lehreter. The last of the raiders did not leave Berlin until after 4 a.m. On the way over Germany the ground defences opened up but the pilots dismissed the opposition as “the usual sort of stuff.” But over Berlin the barrage was a different proposition. The raiders faced intense and concentrated fire. One of the R.A.F. pilots made six separate runs over the Charlottenburg power station to ensure hitting the target. Severe fires broke out immediately after the bombs were dropped. While fhe R.A.F. was striking at Berlin other raiders were attacking the Emden docks. Tons of bombs were dropped on the docks and adjacent railway sidings. Other objectives included a factory 40 miles eastward of Bremen where night work was in progress, the Dornier factories as Wismar, also a factory at Erunsbuttel.