NEW BRITISH BOMBS
DOING TERRIFIC DAMAGE IN GERMANY HAMBURG A TRAGIC PICTURE. ONE EXPLOSION DEMOLISHES RANGE OF BUILDINGS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. June 1. The German people are having the war brought home to them in Hamburg, Kiel ami Wilhelmshaven, states the Air Ministry news service. In particular, reports of the terrible effect of the latest. British bombs are spreading. In Hamburg one of these new bombs fell into the Steinwerder industrial area. Industrial buildings covering 20,000 square yards were completely demolished. Over 75,000 square yards there was severe damage from blast and at two points more than 1100 feet apart the effects of the blast were very obvious. Reports from within Germany describe Hamburg as a tragic picture, and it is said there is scarcely a district which has not suffered. A photographic reconnaissance of Hamburg has already shown 36 very large industrial buildings completely demolished or very seriously damaged and many others less seriously damaged.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1941, Page 5
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