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BERLIN BOMBED FOR SIX HOURS IN R.A.F. RELAYS Objectives Hit In

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 Ministry

Alr

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"planes while a small number also pene-, trafed the Midlanda and 'north- weat..

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Similar enemy activity on smaller scale occurred in the after- noon.""

Bombs dropped in London were mostly on the outskirts.! Ona block of flats was damaged 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.

Y.M.C.A.

IN LONDON

Heart Of Capital WRECKED

GERMANS

SHELL

DOVER AREA

German long-range guns fired shells from the French coast at intervals into the Dover area yesterday afternoon. Reuter.

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THE R.A.F. ON Sunday night operated at both ends- and in the middle Berlin-Rome Axis.

of the

Simultaneously with two raids on Berlin, ex- 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-

ABOLITION light.

OF

THE QUEUE

Direct hits were made on sid- ings with high explosive and five fires were counted as the result of incendiaries.

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Following raiders. -directed their attention to an objective -near the centre of the city and -Industrial `targeta in the north-

western suburbs,

An attempt is to be made by Mr. Herbert Mor- rison, Minister of Home Security, to abolish the The official account states

here also, the bomb-almers saw peculiarly English system bombs bursting round the of the queue as applied to gets. air raid shelters used for

BRITAIN'S AIR POWER sleeping in.

Mr. Morrison announced yester- day he has authorised an experi- ment in the issue of tickets in the

London area and thus avoid "that abomination, the queue."

There are more 'planes in Great Britain of every

Mr. Morrison added people had operational type ready for

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,

Shelter Census

This statement Lord Beaver- brook, Minister of Aircraft Pro- duction, told pressinen in London

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 SHELTERS: IN 'LONDON USED of action. {

He admitted one or two fac-FOR. SLEEPING...

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-but declared: construction' was

After two hours respite second, attack began.

that

tar-

SUDDEN ERUPTION

OF OLDONYO LENGAI

Headquarters of the Young Men's Christian in London. Association were severely damaged by a high explosive bomb during an air raid.

There were some casualties, including 10 killed, but 400 500 members sheltering in gymnasium escaped.

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The greater part of the build- ing, including the hotel, where over. 300 realdents are living. was rendered uninhabitable, Casualties were mostly in the reading and billiards room:

Reuter.

NEW DECREE FOR ENEMY ALIENS

Persons of eminence in art, science and letters,- university or technical college students and those who have lived since child- hood or for

the 20 years in United Kingdom and are friendly towards. Britain, are eligible for release' from camps of interned Germans and Austrians. The sudden eruption of the vol- This was announced yesterday cano Oldonyo Lengai..or "Moun-in a revised edition of the White tain of God," in the northern pro-Paper dealing with civil internees vince of Tanganyika, bas covered of enemy nationalities-Reuter. the countryside for 30 miles around with molten lava and ashes

"ALL QUIET”

of

Many cattle have been killed "The situation continues "quiet. the but so far no loss of life is report- on all fronts," in the words.

ed, it was stated in Dar-es-Salaam yesterday's G.H.Q. Communique yesterday. Reuter.

In Cairo-Reuter.

Clear visibility now favour. ed' the operations and one pilot, disregarding hot A.A. fire, dived to within 2,000 fast. of the roof-tops to straddle the heart of the city with a stick of bombs. He like .other pilots, saw big fires start.

Railways Hit

The pilots recorded hits on the Fullitzerstrasse and Ehrter rail- way yards and goods sidings at Charlottenburg. “

The raide to Italy Involved:a 1,600 milica non-etop flight with a double crossing of the Alpa, Here active operations, began. soon after midnight when bombs fell on industrial plants in Milan and the Fiat works in Turin, as well as the Pirelli accessory. fac-

tories had been hit by bombs There are so many problems In no way seriously impeded. involved that, for the time beng, Losses in the air and on the the issue will be in the nature of ground were much more than an experiment and confined to atory at Sesto San Giovanni and rande good. The Import of American machines was growing and Canadian, production was excellent Reuter,

FRENCH ROUND-UP OF "COMMUNISTS"

Five, were arrested and 70| others, are to be interned follow ing the searching of: 129-housca belonging to the "principal French military communista" in the Loire department, stated the Havas Agency yesterday.

few shelters, which will not in- clude Tube stations, t

A shelter census will be taken and only three-quarters of the space will be allotted to ticket halders,

No one will be given a ticket If he already has suitable shelter at home, Routers

GRYNZPAN TO BE

SENT TO BERLIN

blast furnaces at Aosta. -

Between these extremes there was the customary activity-on ports, and on industrial targets in the Ruhr including Krupps, and on naval docks at Hamburg and Wilhelmshaven which, In the words of the official com munique, were, heavily bombed. A large warship received a direct, hit-Reuters.

Balloon Goes Down:

The Polish Jew, Grynzpan,.who Behind a British bomber as it assassinated vom Rath, Counsellor roared up, and away over Burlin of the German. Embassy in Paris, after a power dive, a barrage bal- on November 18, 1938, is being loon, hit by a hall of fire sent up Thor agency added a lot of sent to Berlin for trial, it was by the ground defences, could be very interesting documents, were stated in Vichy yesterday. Reu- seen falling in flames, British

Wireless. seized. Reuter,

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