THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 25, 1940.
BERLIN RAID PRESSED HOME
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Military Objectives Attacked In Large Force Extensive R.A.F. Bomb Operations IN CRASH
GLASGOW EXPLOSION DISASTER
BERLIN, BOMBED AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOR THE TWENTY-SECOND TIME, WAS VISITED BY R.A.F. HEAVY BOMBERS FÖR NEARLY TWO HOURS. One of Glasgow's oldest industrial establishments 000000000000000000
a starch works destroyed by an explosion and fire yesterday, with a heavy casualty list.
was
Substantial improvements were in progress when an explosion
wrecked the works, windows were smashed over a wide area and the roof of a neighbouring flour mill blown off.
A Hundred A.R.P. workers assisted. regular firemen. Ten are believed to have been killed and ́28 injured taken to hospital. Reuter.
HANDBAG STOLEN
FROM HOUSE
Mrs. E. S. Randall, of No. 224. Nathan Road, had a handbag and its contents, valued at $49. stolen from her residence yesterday.
TRAINING PARACHUTISTS IN CANADA
Parachute • troops may shortly, begin training in Canada "as against the time when we may take the offensive," the Canudian Air Minister revealed in. Ottawa yesterday. Reuter.
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The WING ON
Two of the capital's principal power sta- tions were among targets selected. They were the Berliner electricity works, in the Charlottenberg area, and the Kilngenberg works, on the opposite side of the city.
AIR VICE-MARSHAL BLOUNT KILLED
Air Vice-Marshal C. H. B. Blount has been killed in an air crash, it was announced in London yesterday.
He commanded the air component (army. cooperation. squa- drons) of the R.A.F. The great railway yards at Tempelhof, in France. Reuter. Putlitz Strasse and Lehreter were also attack-100000000000000000* ed.
Reaching Berlin well after midnight by dead DEFINITE
·reckoning navigation because of cloud, they were met by intense concentrated fire from batteries on the outskirts of the city and in the city itself. But
PLAN OF
neither guns nor searchlights could stop the attack. ATTACK
The crew of one bomber which spent half an hour over the ca-
pital said they went straight through the outer barrage, picked up their position in the target area and got ready to bomb.
Tons of high explosive bomba
and hundreds of incendiariés Sirens awakened- Ber- were unloaded on dock arcas
and adjacent railway sidings in liners again on Wednes- two separate raids, the first of day night as
half an hour and the second of one hour, on Emden.
British 'planes which earlier had -visited Hamburg began to arrive over the German capital, says the Stock- holm "Aftonbladet" Ber- lin correspondent. definite plan," wires the corres-.. "The attack clearly followed, a.
Some A.A. shells burst very close and a member of the crew who put his head out of the
Factory Attacked side-windows said he heard them go off with a "crisp, sharp A large factory with its own explosion." Their bombs start-railway sidings was attacked 50 od a large fire.
miles east of Berlin, and other Other aircraft located their ob- obiect ves included railway cars jectives by the aid of parachute at Frankfurt-on.-Oder, a factory flares.
40 miles east of Bremen where A squadron leader attacking | night work was in progress, the one railway yard said somebody Dornier aircraft factories at Wies-pondent. élse put down a flare very nicely mar, on the Bältle coast, and, oil for them just at the crucial mo-refineries at Hanover and Magde- burg, both of which had been damaged in previous raids,
ment.
Straight And Level
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*We carried out attacks straight and level, ignoring fre from the ground. It was right in the centre of the city.
"About five to fifteen seconds after the Bombs burst, four fires sprang up.”
Official Communique...
R.A.F. bombers which attacked objectives in the Berlin area on Wednesday night ceused fires and explosions, states the Alt Minis« try communique.
warehouses
Other forces of aircraft carried The pilot of another aircraft out concentrated raids on rail- made six separate circles over ways, wharves and Charlottenberg power station to at the port of Emdch. make certain their bombs got dead over the target.
Inmediately after the bombs dropped several fires broke out in
the area.
R.A.F. MEN
REACH CANADA
"Particularly heavy bomb de- tonations were heard. in west- ern Berlin where it is reported numerous tires were caused. "Berliners got their morning, the raid," papers and letters láté owing
ujer.
DAYLIGHT KILLING IN SHANGHAI
Other targets in Germany and (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"), cnemy occupied territory were at- tacked. They included oil plants Unknown gunmen in Shanghai at Magdeburg and Hanover. goods yesterday shot and killed in broad yards east of Berlin, near Han-daylight in the central district a over, and at Frankfurt.
Chinese named Chen Li-bong, be- Heved to be the bodyguard of the Chinese manager of the China General Omnibus Co."
Various industrial targets and railway junctions in northern and westem Germany, docks at the Hook of Holland and several
A number of men in R.A.F. unl-enemy aerodromes were also forin arrived at an eastern Cana-bombed.
Ona R.A.F. 'plane dian port yesterday from England.
is missing from these operations-Reuter, -Reuter.
The sound of the shots attract- ed the attention of several police. constables, who fired three shots at the assassins without effect. - Havas.
Following the sinking of the (talian alx-inch aun cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni by H.M.A.8. Byd-
hay, in the alothes in which they were rescued, survivors of the Bartolomeo Colicóni aro bo-
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