WAR CARRIED INTO BERLIN

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21228, 26 September 1940, Page 7

WAR CARRIED INTO BERLIN

SUCCESSFUL ROYAL AIR FORCE RAIDS WIDESPREAD DAMAGE—INTENSE BARRAGE AVOIDED (Official Wireless) (Received Sept. 26, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 25 A number of military objectives in the heart of Berlin was singled out and attacked on Tuesday night when Royal Air Force heavy bombers, for the second night in succession, carried the war into the German capital in a raid lasting two and a-half hours. The raid began shortly after 10.30 says an Air Ministry bulletin, when the first attacker, evading the intense barrage from the city’s ground defences, located and bombed the great Siemens and Halse factories, which produce a large proportion of the electrical equipment used by the German armed forces. Great fires were seen to break out in the target area after the bombing. Berlin’s electric power transformer and switching station at Uriederichsuelde, supplying most of the city’s industrial current, was attacked at 1 a.m. today. Sticks of high explosive bombs were seen to hurst across the plant. A blast furnace in the south-east suburbs was struck, causing large fires. Two sticks of bombs dropped across a canal bridge two miles south-west of Berlin’s main airport at Tempelhof. German Supply Ship Sunk

Hudson aircraft of the Coastal Command sank a German supply ship near the Frisian Islands early on Wednesday morning. There were three enemy vessels in a convoy. The Hudson made a divebombing attack on the largest one, which was leading. Three bombs made direct hits, and the ship was settling by the stern when the Hudson flew away, followed by anti-aircraft fire from two other vessels. Brest was again attacked, this time by Beauforts and Ansons of the Coastal Command. They set fire to infantry barracks, damaged docks, and started a vast fire on and around the railway siding. When Coastal Command Blenheims raided Cherbourg they had to contend with extremely bad visibility but all found their objectives. One pilot had to search for his target for 35 minutes amidst intense anti-aircraft fire.