OFF THE AIR
NAZI RADIO STATIONS AIR RAID WARNING ALARM IN BERLIN (United Tress Assn.—Elec. Tel. CopyrfirM) LONDON, August 20 For the fir§t time since the outbreak of war, every German radio station was off the air early this morning. An air raid alarm was sounded in Berlin at 12.42 a.m. and some antiaircraft fire was heard to the west of the city. The “ail clear” was given at 2.22 a.m. About forty large explosions, apparently anti-aircraft fire, were heard outside the western suburbs of Berlin during the alarm. German officials stated that two British planes flew over Berlin. One reached Tegel, nine miles north of the capital, and dropped numberous flares but no bombs.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21197, 21 August 1940, Page 7
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115OFF THE AIR Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21197, 21 August 1940, Page 7
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