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BERLIN BOMBED FOR SIX HOURS IN R.A.F.
Objectives Hit In Heart Of Capital
DAYLIGHT RAIDS DIMINISH
Guns and fighter de- fences were in action throughout yesterday and one enemy. bomber is known to have been des- troyed, states an Air Ministry communique
issued last night. ⠀⠀
In addition four enemy 'planes are now known to have been: des- troyed during the night.
Attacks over the British, ca. pital, were carried out yesterday | morning by single enemy 'plants while a small number also pene. trafed-the Midlands and north- wast.
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Similar enemy activity on smaller scale occurred in the after-
noon.
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Bombs dropped in London were mostly on the outskirta.) One block of flats was damaged i and some houses hit.
A factory was damaged in Lan- cashire and some damage caused at several points on the Channel coast.
Total: casualties were not large but some were killed. Reuter,
GERMANS SHELL
DOVER AREA
German long-range guns fired shells from the French coast · at intervals into the Dover area vesterday afternoon.-Reuter.
ABOLITION
OF
THE QUEUE
An attempt is to be made by Mr. Herbert Mor rison, Minister of Home Security, to abolish the peculiarly English system of the queue as applied to air raid shelters used for
BRITAIN'S AIR POWER sleeping-in.
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Mr: Morrison announced yester- day he has authorised an experi-
London area and thus avoid “thatį abomination, the queue.”
ment in the issue of tickets in the
There are more planes in Great Britain of every operational type ready for Mr. Morrison added people had quite enough to put with without immediate service to-day the hardship and waste of time than there were two involved in queueing up or ar
riving for shelter hours before- months ago.
hand to reserve places.-Reuter.
This statement Lord Beaver. brook, Minister of Aircraft Pró- duction, told: pressmen in London
Shelter Census.
yesterday, was after allowance A- START IS TO BE MADE had been made for losses in the IN THE ISSUING OF TICKETS air and transfers to other scenes OF ADMISSION FOR PUBLIC of action.
ye Hevadmitted one or two, fac- torles had boom:hit by bombe,
Y.M.C.A. IN LONDON AWRECKED
THE R.A.F. ON Sunday night operated at both ends — and in the middle — of the Berlin-Rome-Axis. · ".
Headquarters of the Young Men's Christian Association
in London were severely damaged by a high explosive bomb
There were: some casualties, including 10 killed, but 400 or 500 members sheltering in the gymnasium escaped.
Simultaneously with two- raids on Berlin, ex-during an air raid. tending over six hours, British bombers were launching high explosive bombs upon the Italian motorcar and aeroplane manufacturing regions and steel works.
A heavy ground mist kept the first raiders to Berlin circling for half an hour trying to find their targets and then the haze cleared and the big railway yard of the Outer Moabit was seen unmistakably glinting in the moon-
light.
'Direct hits were made on sid-
ings with high explosive and five fires were..counted as the result of incendiaries.
Following raiders directed thair attention to an objective near the centre of the city and industrial targets"in the north- western suburbs:
The official account states that here also the bomb-aimers saw bombs bursting round the tar gets
After two hours respite
second attack: began:
Clear visibility, now
the
The greater part of the build. ing, including the hotel, where ...-over: 300% residents, are living,
was rendered uninhabitable. Casualties were, mostly in the
reading and billiards Reuter.
NEW DECREE FOR
ENEMY ALIENS
Persons of eminence in art, science and letters, university or
SUDDEN ERUPTION technical college students and
OF OLDONYO LENGAI
The sudden eruption of the vol- cano Oldonyo Lengal or Moun- in or God," in the northern. pro- vince of Tanganyika, has covered the countryside for 30 miles around with molten lava and ashes::
those who have lived since child-.
the hood or for 20 years in United Kingdom and are friendly towards Britain, are eligible for release from camps of interned Germans and. Austrians.
This was announced yesterday in a revised edtion of the White Paper dealing with civil internees.
of enemy nationalities.Reuter
"ALL QUIET"
Many cattle have been killed The situation continues, “quiet but so far no loss of life is report- on all fronts," the words of favoured, it was stated in Dar-es-Salaam yesterday's G.FLQ, communique
in Cairo R
ed the operations - and one yesterday:Reufer pilot, --- disregarding: “hot”: A¦A, fire, dived, to within 2,000: feat of the roof-tops to straddle the heart of the city with a stick of bomba. He like other pilota, saw big fires start,
Railways Hit
The pilots recorded hits on the Fullitzerstrasse and Ehrter rail- way yards and goods sidings at Charlottenburg.
The raids to Italy involved a 1,600 miles non-stop flight, with -a-double crossing, of, the “Alps,
Here active operations began. SHELTERS IN LONDON USED 5000 after midnight, when bombs dari fell on industrial plants in Milan FOR SLEEPING."
Land, the Fiat works in Turin, asi but declared construction was involved: that, for the time being tory at Sesto San Giovanni, and There are so many problems well as the Pirelli, accessory 'fac- in no way seriously Impeded. Losses in the air and on the the issue will be in the nature of blast furnaces at Aosta. ground were much more than an experiment and confined to a - Between these extremes there made good: The import of few shelters, which will not in-was the customary activity on American machines. was growing clude Tube stations. and Canadian production - was A shelter census will be taken and only three-quarters of the space will be allotted to ticket holders, pr
excellent.Reuter.
FRENCH ROUND-UP OF "COMMUNISTS"
Five were arrested and 70 others are to be interned follow- ing the searching of 129 houses belonging to the principal French milltary communists" in the Loire department, stated the Havas bgency yesterday.
No one will be given a ticket ff he already has suitable shelter. fat home, Router:
ports and on Industrial targets in the Ruhr, including Krupps, and on nayal docks at Hamburg and Wilhelmshaven which, In the words of the official com- munique, were heavily bombed. A large warship received a directi hit-Reuter:
FRENCH GIFT OF AN AMBULANCE The Free French community of Kenya yesterday handed over to the East. African Force a
GRYNZPAN TO BE SENT TO BERLIN The Polish Jew, Grynzpan, who nasassinated vom Rath, Counsellor of the German Embassy in Paris, on November 18, 1980, is being pletely equipped ambulance. The The agency added a lot of sent to Berlin for trial, it was ceremony at Nairobi was attend- very interesting documents were stated in Vichy yesterday.Reued by the Governor and the Bel seized.
glan consul-Reuter,
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