HAVOC IN BERLIN
CAUSER BY R.A.F. RAID OVER 1,000 PERSONS KILLED. FIRES BURNING THREE DAYS . LATER. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 19. Officials in Berlin admitted to foreign visitors that a thousand persons were killed in the R.A.F’s. raid on Berlin on March 1, which was Berlin’s biggest, says Reuter’s special correspondent inside Europe. (Over 1,000 deaths were reported only twice during the raids on London, namely, on April 16 and 19, TD4I). Reuter adds that there are 45 bomb craters in the Friendrichstrasse, one of the principal shopping streets, and that the Leipsigerstrasse (Berlin’s Strand) suffered considerable havoc. Fires were burning three days later in an arcade off the Unter Den Linden. Two floors were burnt out in the Hotel Bristol, the favourite haunt of Nazi officials.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 March 1943, Page 3
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