HAVOC IN GERMANY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 May 1941, Page 5

HAVOC IN GERMANY

EFFECT OF NEW BRITISH BOMBS MISSILES OF TREMENDOUS POWER. BERLIN SUFFERS SEVERELY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, May 27. The Lisbon correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says one of Britain’s new bombs which wrecked a railway station in Berlin, blew in windows and damaged many roofs within a halfmile radius. This was revealed by American business men after their arrival from Germany. They added that the Germans describe these bombs as aerial torpedoes. Thousands of Jewish families were given three days to evacuate their homes to make room for 10,000 people who had gone to Berlin for shelter after the heavy plastering of Bremen. Hamburg, Kiel. Hanover and Wilhelmshaven. One resident of Hamburg reported that one British bomb completely wrecked 250 houses. British bombers in another raid wrecked and damaged buildings over an area of 40 square miles. Berlin has suffered severely, though the authorities are doing lheir utmost to'minimise the damage and rush in workers, including 10.000 Italians, detailed to cover up the effects of bombing as soon as possible.