DUSSELDORF SUFFERS
DETAILS OF SEVERE DAMAGE. HEAVY BOMBS PENETRATE TO BASEMENTS. LONDON. April 8. The “Daily Telegraph” correspondent from the German frontier quotes an informant who says DusI seldorf has experienced some of the R.A.F.’s heaviest raids. He said the Germans now put up a smokescreen from each factory immediately raiders are signalled. Britain’s heaviest bombs, penetrating to the basements of the buildings, have greatly increased the havoc. A raid on the night of March 14 destroyed a paper factory, a timber yard, an animal feeding stuffs factory, and a large grocery warehouse. The fires were so big that the Dusseldorf, Cologne and Essen brigades worked for 18 hours before the flames were under control, after which the fires burned for 12 hours. The R.A.F.’ dropped 34 bombs another night within the area covered by the Mannesmann steelworks, and. also hit a petrol store at the Dusseldorf aerodrome and a petrol dump at Neuss. Another attack tore up the permanent way at the Krupps works station and also destroyed an adjacent factory.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 April 1941, Page 5
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