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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

DEFINITE PLAN OF ATTACK

Sirens awakened Ber- liners again on Wednes- British day night as 'planes which earlier had visited Ha nburg began to arrive over the German capital, says the Stock- holm "Aftonbladet" Ber- lin correspondent.

"The attack clearly followed a definite plan," wires the corres- pondent.

"Particularly heavy bomb de- tonations were heard in west; ern Berlin where it is reported numerous fires were caused. "Berliners got their morning papers and letters late owing to the raid."-Reuter.

INCREASE IN TEA QUOTA

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The International Tea mittee in London, it nounced yesterday, has decided, to increase the quota by 21⁄2 per cent for the current control year ending March 31, 1941.-Reuter.

BERLIN, BOMBED AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOR THE TWENTY-SECOND TIME, WAS VISITED BY R.A.F. HEAVY BOMBERS FOR NEARLY TWO NOURS.

TRAINING PARACHUTISTS IN CANADA

Parachute troops. may shortly begin training in Canada as against the time. when we may take the offensive," the Canadian Air Minister in Ottawa revealed yesterday. Reuter."- 0000000000

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They were the Berliner électricity works, in the Charlottenberg area, and the Kilngenberg works, on the opposite side of the city.

The great railway yards at Tempelhof, Putlitz Strasse and Lehreter were also attack- ed.

AIR VICE-MARSHAL BLOUNT KILLED IN CRASH

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. cooperationi siquua- drons) of the RAF. in France. Reuter.

WILLKIE But REPLIES

Reaching Berlin well after midnight by dead 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. neither guns nor searchlights could stop the 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: bombs

Mr. Wendell Wilkie

and hundreds of incendiaries made his reply to Pre- were unloaded on' dock areas sident Roosevelt's election and adjacent railway sidings. In

two separate raidz, the first of campaign in half an hour and the second of broadcast one hour, on Emden.

Factory Attacked

Some A.A. shells burst very close and a member of the crew who put his head out of the side-windows said he heard them go off with a "arisp, sharp-į A large factory with its own explosion" Their bombs start-railway sidings was attacked 50 ed a large fire.

niles east of Berlin, and other Other aircraft located their ob-object ves included railway cars jectives by the aid of parachute at Frankfurt-on-Oder, a factory flares.

140 miles east of Brenten where A squadron leader attacking night work was in progress, the one railway yard said somebody Dornier circraft factories at Wies- else put down a flare very nicely mar, on the Baltic coast, and oil for them just at the crucial mo- retineries at Hanover and Magde- burg, both of which had been damaged in previous ralds:

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·Straight And Level

Official Communique "We carried. out attacks straight and level; ignoring. fire ·R.A.F. bombers which attacked from the ground. It was right in objectives in the Berlin area on

·the centre of the city.

....Wednesday night. ceused fires and "About five to fifteen seconds cxplosions, states the Air Minis- after the "bombs burst, fourtry communique: fires sprang up."

Other forces of aircra carried The pilot of another aircraft out concentrated raids on rail- made six separate circles over ways, wharves and warehouses' Charlottenberg power station to at the port of Emden. make certain their bombs got Other targets in Germany and dead over the target.

Immediately after the bombs dropped several fires broke out in the area.

R.A.F. MEN REACH CANADA

enemy cccupied territory were at- tacked. They included oil plants at Magdeburg and Hanover. "goods | yards east of Berlin, near Han- over, and at Frankfurt,

a train at Harbor Creek, Pennsylvania, yes-

térday.

Mr. Wilkie declared that if Pre- sident Roosevelt did not remember his promises of to-day longer than he did those of 1932, he feared that our boys would soon be placed in war transports bound for some foreign shore.

Replying to President Roose- velt's

the claims concerning achievements of the New Deal, Mr. Willkie asserted that national in- come under President Roosevelt has declined by 11 per cent., in- dustrial production by five per cent. furm income by 20 per cent, industrialyages a by 21 per cent, and dividends 32 per cent. — Reuter

U.S. ARMY AIR CORPS PLANS

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Reorganisation of the United States Army's Air Corps tou crease its number of combat Various industria! targets and groups from 25 to 54, was railway junctions in norikern and nounced by the War Department western Germany, docks at the in Washington yesterday: Hook of Holland and several 4.It was. stated that this will enemy aerodromes were also create a "highly mobile fighting turce" capable of operating any- One R.A... plone is missing where in the Western Hemisphere

Reuter from these operations.-Reuter,

A number of men in R.A.F. uni- form arrived at an eastem-Cana-bombed. dian port yesterday from England: --Reuter:

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