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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 28, 1940

BERLIN BOMBED FOR HOUR AND HALF

Taste Of Britain's

Heaviest Bombs

BERLIN WAS FOR 90 minutes on Satur- day night one of the main targets of R.A.F. activity over Germany extending from the Baltic coast to Leipzig and Cologne.

Berlin had a taste of bombs of the heaviest calibre yet carried.

DR. BENES'

SPRING PROMISE

A "definite transforma-

A large fire was caused in an aero-engine factory in a north-west suburb, the Moabit power station which is one of Berlin's main sources of electric supply, and the Putlitzs trasse and Lehrter railwayyards were attack-broadcast last night on ed with salvoes of high explosive bombs drop- ped from a low altitude.

Another British raiding force, located the Brandenburg aero- а Spandau, engine factory at suburb ten miles north-west of the German capital,, and attack- ed with high explosive and in- cendiaries, leaving a targe fire burning fercely.

Aircraft which made the 1,300- mile round trip to Politz, near Stettin, dropped several tons of explosives and incendiaries on

oil refineries and started fres

area.

15-HOUR

FIGHT

FOR LIFE

tion in all military opera- tions" next Spring was promised his people by Dr. Benes, the Czechoslovak President, in a special the eve of the 22nd anni, versary of their National Independence Day.

The absolute failure of all Ger- man attempts to invade England; the almost incalculable losses the Germans have suffered in their aerial adventures; the impenetra- ble blockade of Germany which will be ever more intensified by growing British air superiority -- all these, Dr. Benes said, will lead next spring to a definite trans- formation in all military opera- tions.

Internal troubles in Germany German-occupied countries will do the rest.

and

the Norddeutsche Hydrierwerke A desperate attempt and explosions within the target lasting 15% hours to save the life of a woman impri- soned by masonry after a bomb had hit a great Lon- don hospital failed drama-Referring to recent German af-

Big Fires At Cologne, the Union Rhei nesche Braunkohled plant was attacked and big fires started in-tically. side a large factory building,

"This end of Nazi-ism will be terrible, terrible to all who have been guilty," he went on. "We are well prepared for it in [our country!"-

tempts to persuade the Czecho- slovaks to organise meetings to

The Leuna oil refinery. WOR The woman was a 32-year-old proffer expressions of loyalty so straddled with sticks of heavy Australian masseuse.

Four wo- that the world might suppose they calibre bombs falling across the men were killed when the build-were ready to collaborate with the centre and north end of tho ing in which she was sleeping Reich, Dr. Benes warned his peo- was destroyed. Some hours later nie not to yield to this pressure. she herself was discovered alive, Reuter. and rescue work began. But just as she was being brought to safety the air-raid sirens went. The shock was too much. She died immediately.

plant, causing heavy explo. slons and outbreaks of 'fire.

Docks and shipping at Hamburg were bombed three times while numerous hits were scored on docks at Cuxhaven and harbour installations and shipping con- centrations at Antwerp.-Reuter.

SHOTS BY R.A.F. MAN IN THE WEST END

The famous old hospital was The hit early in the morning. masseuse was in one of the blocks that provide accommodation for

It the nursing staff.

was this block which received the full force of what is believed to have been a 1,000 lb. bomb.

Chunks of stone crashed through the air and a large hole showed all that was left of two massive floora.

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HEAVY DAMAGE

IN BERLIN

Reports of widespread damage in Berlin due to R.A.F. raids have been received in authoritative quarters in London from

was severely damaged;

One-third of the Loewe elec- trical factory is completely de- stroyed;

An R.A.F. officer fired

Singing Patients reliable neutral sources. warning shots as he puro serious operations, but they tive damage of military import- Most of them were recovering]: Outstanding examples of effec- sued a man suspected of met their misfortune with magnance are: posing as a pilot officer in ficent spirit. As the medical staff, The Siemens works, which students and other helpers hurried supplies a great part of the Ger- the West End of London.in the darkness to their assistance man army's electrical equipment,

At the same time, a civilian, the patients, sang. George William Lacey, a carman, It seemed impossible that any who was on his way to work, col- of the people in the wrecked block lapsed and died, apparently from could have escaped, yet 15 out of shock on hearing the firing, for he 20 were brought out alive. Hope was not injured.

had been almost abandoned for Later in the day Darcy Wilson, the remaining five when, with the twenty-nine, burman, of Pitt Road, coming of daylight, it was dis- Thornton Heath, was remanded covered that the masseuse before Mr. McKenna, at Bow alive. The bed on which she had Street, on a charge of wearing the been sleeping was pinned beneath uniform of a pilot-officer of the an enormous pile of debris, but a R.A.F. in Wild Street, Drury Lane, beam protected her from it. calculated falsely to suggest that She was able to talk to the men he was acting in the service of his who approached. Elaborate pre- Majesty. He pleaded guilty. parations had to be made to: bring

Half a chemical machinery fac- tory was burned down;

The AEG turbine works and the Maig motor depot were bad- was ly damaged.'

A hole was knocked: in the side

drops:

Two of Berlin's principal power stations have been furr ther disorganised by repeated attacke.

Dislocation of Berlin's railway

Without Gas Charlottenburg went without It was stated that the police her out without capsizing the gas for two days, according to wished to make inquiries and ap-mass of debris that concealed her. a reliable report. plied for a remand.

Flight-Lieutenant John Forbes wall that remained standing, but trame was increased by damage Andre Day said that when in Ox- she could not be moved owing to to the Underground, which is ford Street that morning Wilson the pressure of the debris on her the most popular means of tran- gave him a sloppy salute.

Jegs. She resigned herself to a sport. One, attack destroyed He felt suspicious, as it was not long wait, asking only for held many vehicles in the city's main usual for q pilot-officer to šálute

tram and bus depot. -Reuter. a night-lieutenant. The man was also wearing a ribbon which was not right.

He spoke to him, and his con-

At a height of 50ft, the romain- versation led him to believe he ed a prisoner, with only the corner 'was an Imposter.

a red blanket to Indicate her "I put him under arrest," con- position. Sicel scaffolding was tinued the flight-lieutenant, "but erected on each side of the demo-

Severe dust storms in the West- as we approached Adastral House lished building to provide a em Desert throughout Saturday he dived down a side street. To bridge.

were reported in a G.HQ. com- attract attention I fired my re- At five p.m. the masseuse was munique issued in Cairo yester volver at a blank wall, but slowly moved to the hole that had day..

Hundreds Watch

DUST STORMS IN WESTERN DESERT

"He did not stop and I fired | been made in the wall. Ten min- In the Sudan and Kenya British again. I was running as hard as utes later, as she was half way | fighting patrols were again active: I could, and when I got round" through it, the air raid sirens · From Palestine there is nothing the corner two men stopped him”- sounded and the shock killed her. 'to report. Reuter.